WKB analysis of bend losses in optical waveguides

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1161-1166

  Berglund, William ^a   Gopinath, Anand ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVE EQUATIONS;

BEND LOSSES; EFFECTIVE INDEX METHOD; HEIBLUM HARRIS ANALYSIS; METHOD OF LINES; SCALAR FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; WENTZEL KRAMERS BRILLOUIN METHOD;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0034251070     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.857763     Document Type: Article

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