Scalar Analysis of General Dielectric Waveguides by Fourier Decomposition Method and Lanczos Reduction

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 362-368

  Forastiere, Michele A ^a   Righini, Giancarlo C ^a  

^a Optoelectronics Photonics D   (Italy)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Numerical techniques

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLYNOMIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

FOURIER DECOMPOSITION METHOD; LANCZOS REDUCTION METHOD; SCALAR HELMHOLTZ EIGENPROBLEM; STEP INDEX INTEGRATED OPTICAL STRUCTURES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0033078521     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.744263     Document Type: Article

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