A three-dimensional wide-angle BPM for optical waveguide structures

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 402-407

  Ma, Changbao ^a   Van Keuren, Edward ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ALGEBRAIC EQUATION; PHOTONIC DEVICES; WIDE-ANGLE BEAM PROPAGATION;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 33846538444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.000402     Document Type: Article

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