The beam propagation method

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 42-48

  Mansuripur, Masud ^a   Wright, Ewan M ^b   Fallahi, Mahmoud ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD (BPM);

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0034236951     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPN.11.7.000042     Document Type: Article

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