New method for nonparaxial beam propagation

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1082-1087

  Sharma, Anurag ^a   Agrawal, Arti ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; COLLOCATION METHOD; SPLIT STEP NONPARAXIAL METHOD;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 2942750279     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.21.001082     Document Type: Article

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