General properties of N × M self-images in a strongly confined rectangular waveguide

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 4855-4859

  He, Sailing ^a,b   Ao, Xianyu ^a   Romanov, Vladimir ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE;

RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0042788108     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.004855     Document Type: Article

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