Analysis of modes in a freestanding microsquare resonator by 3-D finite-difference time-domain simulation

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 997-1001

  Chen, Qin ^a   Huang, Yong Zhen ^a   Guo, Wei Hua ^a,b   Yu, Li Juan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

FDTD methods; Modeling; Optical resonator

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; MICROSQUARE RESONATOR;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 22444443887     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2005.848900     Document Type: Article

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