A New Preconditioner Based on Paraxial Approximation for Stable and Efficient Reflective Beam Propagation Method

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1996-2001

  Feng, Ning Ning ^a   Xu, Chenglin ^b   Huang, Wei Ping ^a   Fang, Da Gang ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Apollo Inc   (Canada)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bi conjugate gradient stabilized (bi CGSTAB) method; Pad approximation; Preconditioner; Reflective beam propagation method (R BPM)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

PRECONDITIONERS;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 0141527324     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.816892     Document Type: Article

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