Vectorial thin-element approximation: A semirigorous determination of Kirchhoff's boundary conditions

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

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1074-1084

  Kerwien, Norbert ^a   Schuster, Thomas ^a   Rafler, Stephan ^a   Osten, Wolfgang ^a   Totzeck, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b CARL ZEISS SMT AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VECTORS;

COUPLED-WAVE ANALYSIS; KIRCHHOFF APPROXIMATION;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 34248350046     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.24.001074     Document Type: Article

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