Numerical techniques for modeling guided-wave photonic devices

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 150-162

  Scarmozzino, R ^a   Gopinath, A ^b   Pregla, R ^c   Helfert, S ^c  

^a RSoft Design Group Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD (BPM); METHOD OF LINES (MOL);

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0033877497     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.826883     Document Type: Article

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