A wide-angle beam propagation method based on a finite element scheme

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 33, Issue 2 PART 2, 1997, Pages 1544-1547

  Tsuji, Yasuhide ^a   Koshiba, Masanori ^a   Tanabe, Tomohide ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD (BPM); PADE APPROXIMANT OPERATOR; SOFTWARE PACKAGE ELM CIRCUIT;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0031096541     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.582559     Document Type: Article

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