Finite element analysis of anisotropic optical waveguide with arbitrary index profile

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 3 PART 1, 1999, Pages 1546-1549

  Franco, Marcos A R ^a   Passaro, Angelo ^a   Cardoso, José R ^b   Machado, José M ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE ESTUDOS AVANÇADOS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anisotropic media; Finite element methods; Nonhomogeneoulsy loaded waveguides; Optical strip waveguides

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PERMITTIVITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TENSORS;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; CHANNEL WAVEGUIDES; DIFFUSED OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; NONHOMOGENEOUSLY LOADED WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL STRIP WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0033121747     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.767263     Document Type: Article

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