General eigenvalue equations for optical planar waveguides with arbitrarily graded-index profiles

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 878-885

  Chung, Min Sub ^a   Kim, Chang Min ^a,b,c  

^a University of Seoul   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARILY GRADED INDEX PROFILE; MODIFIED AIRY FUNCTIONS; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; WENZEL-KRAMERS-BRILLOUIN METHOD;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE SHIFT;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0033717702     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.848401     Document Type: Article

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