Evaluation of diffraction loss in prism light guides by finite-difference time-domain field modeling

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 25, 1998, Pages 5836-5842

  Whitehead, Lorne A ^a   Su, Wei ^b   Grandmaison, Dmitri N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

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EID: 6344220021     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.005836     Document Type: Article

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