New numerical method for solving planar waveguide problems with arbitrary index profiles: TE mode solutions

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1351-1353

  Wang, Likarn ^a   Huang, N ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COSINE TRANSFORMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

FOURIER COSINE SERIES; FOURIER SPECTRAL AMPLITUDES; TRANSVERSE ELECTRIC MODE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0032590965     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.784597     Document Type: Article

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