Application of modified finite-difference formulas to the analysis of z-variant rib waveguides

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1001-1003

  Yamauchi, Junji ^a   Nakamura, Shu ^a   Nakano, Hisamatsu ^a  

^a HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; VECTORS;

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; SEMIVECTORIAL H-FIELD; Z-VARIANT RIB WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0342572560     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.867988     Document Type: Article

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