An Efficient Computation Scheme for Time-Domain Reflection at Optical Waveguide Discontinuities

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 461-463

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

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Optical waveguide discontinuities; Preconditioner; Reflection; Time domain analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; GRADIENT METHODS; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE DISCONTINUITIES; PRECONDITIONERS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 1442337538     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.821245     Document Type: Article

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