A wide-angle finite-element beam propagation method

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1208-1210

  Koshiba, Masanori ^a,b   Tsuji, Yasuhide ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IEEE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCULATIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ADAPTIVE GRID; ADAPTIVE REFERENCE INDEX; BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; PADE APPROXIMATION; QUADRATIC ELEMENT;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 0030243268     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.531838     Document Type: Article

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