A Field-Based Numerical Method for Three-Dimensional Analysis of Optical Waveguide Discontinuities

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1661-1664

  Feng, Ning Ning ^a   Huang, Wei Ping ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Iterative method; Optical waveguide; Waveguide discontinuities

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; WAVE EQUATIONS;

NEUMANN SERIES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE DISCONTINUITIES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0346055159     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2003.819555     Document Type: Article

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