Radiation loss of a nanotaper: Singular Gaussian beam model

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1480-1490

  Sumetsky, M ^a  

^a OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WAVE EQUATIONS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; PARABOLIC POTENTIAL BARRIER; RADIATION LOSS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33847157562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.001480     Document Type: Article

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