Amplified total internal reflection: Theory, analysis, and demonstration of existence via FDTD

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1903-1914

  Willis, Keely J ^a   Schneider, John B ^b   Hagness, Susan C ^a  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^b Washington State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GAIN MEASUREMENT; MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

CRITICAL ANGLE; GAINY MEDIUM; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION;

LIGHT REFLECTION;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AMPLIFIERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 39049097559     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.001903     Document Type: Article

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