An improved wide-angle FD-BPM for nonlinear and nonreciprocal waveguides

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 3 I, 2003, Pages 1223-1226

  Alcantara, Licinius D S ^a   Teixeira, Fernando L ^b   Cesar, Amilcar C ^a   Borges, Ben Hur V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite difference beam propagation method (FD BPM); Magnetooptical medium; Nonlinear Kerr type medium; Transverse magnetic (TM) modes

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETOSTATICS; PERMITTIVITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

MAGNETOOPTICAL MEDIUM; NONLINEAR KERR-TYPE MEDIUM; NONRECIPROCAL WAVEGUIDES; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC MODES; WIDE-ANGLE FINITE-DIFFERENCE BEAM-PROPAGATION METHOD;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0038182317     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.810537     Document Type: Article

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