Calculation of light distribution in optical devices by a global solution of an inhomogeneous scalar wave equation

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1236-1244

  Vorobeichik, Ilya ^b   Moiseyev, Nimrod ^b,d,e   Neuhauser, Daniel ^c,f   Orenstein, Meir ^a,b   Peskin, Uri ^b,g  

^a IEEE

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Green's functions; Helmoltz equations; Iterative methods; Maxwell's equations; Numerical analysis; Propagation; Sparse matrices

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; HELMOLTZ EQUATIONS; INHOMOGENEOUS SCALAR WAVE EQUATIONS; LIGHT DISTRIBUTION; QUASI MINIMAL RESIDUAL ALGORITHMS; SPARSE MATRIX;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0031189069     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.594890     Document Type: Article

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