A novel wide-angle beam propagation method based on the spectral collocation scheme for computing titled waveguides

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1872-1874

  Huang, Chia Chien ^a   Huang, Chia Chih ^b  

^a LING TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TUNG NAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Beam propagation method; Dielectric waveguides; Multidomain spectral collocation method; Oblique coordinate system; Wide angle

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; MULTIDOMAIN SPECTRAL COLLOCATION METHOD; OBLIQUE COORDINATE SYSTEM;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 27144535716     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.853253     Document Type: Article

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