Focusing of partially coherent light into planar waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 4511-4522

  Saastamoinen, Toni ^a   Kuittinen, Markku ^a   Vahimaa, Past ^a   Turunen, Jari ^a   Tervo, Jani ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b LightTrans GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTILAYERS;

GAUSSIAN SCHELL-MODEL BEAMS; GRADED INDEX WAVEGUIDE; OVERLAP INTEGRAL METHOD; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 6344262111     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.004511     Document Type: Article

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