Analysis of optical waveguide discontinuities using the Padé approximants

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 964-966

  Chiou, Yih Peng ^b   Chang, Hung Chun ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic analysis; Optical reflection; Optical waveguide theory; Pad approximants; Waveguide discontinuities

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

PADE APPROXIMANTS; WAVEGUIDE DISCONTINUITIES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0031185363     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.593367     Document Type: Article

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