Longitudinal Legendre polynomial expansion of electromagnetic fields for analysis of arbitrary-shaped gratings

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

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1564-1573

  Khavasi, Amin ^a   Jahromi, Ali Kazemi ^a   Mehrany, Khashayar ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMODULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; POLYNOMIALS;

ANALYTICAL FORMULAS; EFFICIENT ANALYSIS; FIELD DEPENDENCES; LEGENDRE BASIS FUNCTIONS; LEGENDRE POLYNOMIAL EXPANSION; LEGENDRE POLYNOMIALS; MEMORY SIZE; R MATRICES; RIGOROUS APPROACH; SHAPED GRATINGS; SURFACE RELIEF GRATINGS; TRANSVERSE ELECTRIC;

ELECTROMAGNETISM;

EID: 51849116059     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.25.001564     Document Type: Article

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