Complementary operators method as the absorbing boundary condition for the beam propagation method

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 976-978

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

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b IEEE

Author keywords

Absorbing boundary conditions; Beam propagation method; Complementary operators method

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; COMPLEMENTARY OPERATORS METHOD;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 0032124098     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.681289     Document Type: Article

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