Highly efficient full-vectorial integral equation solution for the bound, leaky, and complex modes of dielectric waveguides

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1225-1232

  Boriskina, Svetlana V ^a   Benson, Trevor M ^a   Sewell, Phillip ^a   Nosich, Alexander I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b A USIKOV INSTITUTE OF RADIO PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Dielectric waveguides; Green's functions; Integral equations; Optical waveguide theory; Vector modal methods

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GALERKIN METHODS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; VECTORS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

ANALYTICAL REGULARIZATION PROCEDURE; EIGENVALUE PROBLEM; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE THEORY; VECTOR MODAL METHODS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0036881838     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2002.806729     Document Type: Article

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