Systematic modal analysis of 3-D dielectric waveguides using conventional and high accuracy nonstandard FDTD algorithms

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2598-2600

  Tsakmakidis, Kosmas L ^a   Hermann, Christian ^a   Klaedtke, Andreas ^a   Jamois, Cécile ^a   Hess, Ortwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain (FDTD) method; Modeling; Nonstandard finite difference (NSFD); Optical waveguide

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VECTORS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHOD; NONSTANDARD FINITE-DIFFERENCE (NSFD); THREE-DIMENSIONAL DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES;

DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 29244472005     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.859174     Document Type: Article

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