Critical comparison of three modal methods: Bidirectional eigenmode expansion propagation method, aperiodic rigorous coupled mode analysis, and harmonic expansion method

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7099, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Čtyroký, Jiří ^a,b   Richter, Ivan ^b   Kwiecien, Pavel ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHOTONICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Czech Republic)

^b CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Beam propagation method; Bidirectional propagation; Modal methods; Perfectly matched layers

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONICS; WAVEGUIDES;

ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; BIDIRECTIONAL PROPAGATION; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; COUPLED-MODE ANALYSIS; EIGEN MODES; EIGEN-MODE EXPANSION; FOURIER MODAL METHOD; HARMONIC EXPANSIONS; MODAL METHODS; MODE EXPANSION METHOD; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; OPTICAL-; PERFECTLY MATCHED LAYERS; PHOTONIC WIRES; PROPAGATION METHOD; RIGOROUS COUPLED-WAVE ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL TRANSMITTANCE; SURFACE PLASMON;

MODAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 52249110399     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.806719     Document Type: Conference Paper

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