Recurring beams in hollow metal waveguides: Paraxial approximation

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 30, 2002, Pages 6410-6415

  Casperson, Lee W ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC DISTORTION; FOCUSING; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; WAVE EQUATIONS;

HOLLOW METAL WAVEGUIDES;

GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0037145453     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.006410     Document Type: Article

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