Investigation of 3-D semivectorial finite-difference beam propagation method for bent waveguides

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 915-922

  Deng, Hua ^b,d   Jin, Guang Hai ^a,b,c,d   Harari, Joseph ^c,d,e   Vilcot, Jean Pierre ^c,d,e   Decoster, Didier ^c,d,e  

^a IEEE

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d INSTITUT D ELECTRONIQUE   (France)

^e UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Alternating direction implicit; Beam propagation; Bent waveguide; Finite difference

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; VECTORS;

ALTERNATING DIRECTION IMPLICIT METHOD; FINITE DIFFERENCE BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD (FD BPM);

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0032071902     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.669039     Document Type: Article

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