Understanding leaky modes: Slab waveguide revisited

Advances in Optics and Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 58-106

  Hu, Jonathan ^a   Menyuk, Curtis R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

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EID: 69849114013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19438206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AOP.1.000058     Document Type: Article

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