Determination of guided and leaky modes in lossless and lossy planar multilayer optical waveguides: reflection pole method and wavevector density method

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 929-941

  Anemogiannis, Emmanuel ^a   Glytsis, Elias N ^a   Gaylord, Thomas K ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; VECTORS;

LEAKY WAVES; PROPAGATION CONSTANT; REFLECTION POLE METHOD; WAVEVECTOR DENSITY METHOD;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0032635978     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.762914     Document Type: Article

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