Improved pseudospectral mode solver by prolate spheroidal wave functions for optical waveguides with step-index

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 597-605

  Huang, Chia Chien ^a  

^a LING TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chebyshev polynomials; Mode analysis; Optical waveguides; Prolate spheroidal wave functions; Pseudospectral method

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH PARAMETERS; BASIS FUNCTIONS; CHEBYSHEV POLYNOMIALS; COMPUTATIONAL ACCURACIES; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; CONVERGENCE RATES; DIELECTRIC OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; EFFECTIVE INDICES; FASTER CONVERGENCES; MEMORY STORAGES; MODE ANALYSIS; MODE SOLVERS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; OPTICAL FIELDS; PROLATE SPHEROIDAL WAVE FUNCTIONS; PSEUDOSPECTRAL; PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHOD; QUASI-TE; RIB WAVEGUIDES; SUB-DOMAINS; TM MODES; VECTORIAL FORMULATIONS;

CHEBYSHEV APPROXIMATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; WAVE FUNCTIONS; WAVEGUIDES;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 65649097686     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.2004596     Document Type: Article

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