Numerical analysis of resonant properties of a waveguide structure within a random medium

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 10522-10528

  Fujiwara, Hideki ^a,b   Hamabata, Yosuke ^a   Sasaki, Keiji ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS; WAVEGUIDES;

FREQUENCY WINDOWS; LOCALIZED MODES; RANDOM STRUCTURES; RESONANT CONDITION; SIMPLE STRUCTURES; TRANSMITTED INTENSITIES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURE;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649243506     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.010522     Document Type: Article

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