Contour-path effective permittivities for the two-dimensional finite-difference time-domain method

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 10367-10381

  Mohammadi, Ahmad ^a,b   Nadgaran, Hamid ^b   Agio, Mario ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

DIELECTRIC CYLINDERS; DIELECTRIC INTERFACES; VOLUME-AVERAGE APPROXIMATIONS;

PERMITTIVITY;

EID: 28944447610     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.010367     Document Type: Article

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