Quasi-planar optics: Computing light propagation and scattering in planar waveguide arrays

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Thongrattanasiri, Sukosin ^a   Elser, Justin ^a   Podolskiy, Viktor A ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; LIGHT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; ANISOTROPIC MATERIAL; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; OUT-OF-PLANE; PLANAR OPTICS; PLANAR PHOTONICS; PLANAR STRUCTURE; PLANAR WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS; WAVE COUPLING;

SCATTERING;

EID: 73849088834     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.26.00B102     Document Type: Article

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