The perfectly matched layer boundary condition for modal analysis of optical waveguides: Leaky mode calculations

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 652-654

  Huang, W P ^a,b   Xu, C L ^b,c   Lui, W ^a   Yokoyama, K ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c JDS UNIPHASE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MODAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

LEAKY MODE CALCULATIONS; PERFECTLY MATCHED LAYER BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

EID: 0030150116     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.491569     Document Type: Article

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