Analysis of a cylindrical dielectric waveguide with three regions by use of an invariant mode-definition parameter

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 727-735

  Lahart, Martin J ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FIBER OPTICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PERMITTIVITY; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; INVARIANT MODE DEFINITION PARAMETER; TWO DIMENSIONAL SCALAR SOLUTIONS;

DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0032025756     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.15.000727     Document Type: Article

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