Reflectivity of buried slab waveguides

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

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2009-2018

  Gerolymatos, Panagiotis G ^a   Manenkov, Alexander B ^b   Tigelis, Ioannis G ^a   Amditis, Angelos J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b KAPITZA INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

BURIED SLAB WAVEGUIDES; SCATTERING PROPERTIES; TRANSVERSE ELECTRIC MODE; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC MODE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 5644229976     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.21.002009     Document Type: Article

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