Photonic crystal fibres: Mapping Maxwell's equations onto a Schrödinger equation eigenvalue problem

Journal of the European Optical Society

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Mortensen, Niels Asger ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Large mode area; Photonic crystal fibre

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; DISPERSION (WAVES); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; MAPPING; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; QUANTUM THEORY;

BASE MATERIAL; DINGER EQUATION; EIGENVALUE EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUE PROBLEM; ENDLESSLY SINGLE MODES; LARGE MODE AREA; PLANE WAVE; SHORT WAVELENGTHS;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 42949131487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19902573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2971/jeos.2006.06009     Document Type: Article

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