Boundary conditions for the finite difference beam propagation method based on plane wave solutions of the fresnel equation

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 279-285

  Lohmeyer, Manfred ^a   Shamonin, Mikhail ^a,b,c   Hertel, Peter ^a,d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^f CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Beam propagation method; Finite differences; Integrated optics; Transparent boundary conditions

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTEGRATED OPTICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; COMPUTATIONAL WINDOW; FRESNEL EQUATION; WAVE EQUATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0031078745     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.552269     Document Type: Article

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