Two approaches for incoherent propagation of light in rigorous numerical simulations

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 137, Issue , 2013, Pages 187-202

  Campa, Andrej ^a   Krc, Janez ^a   Topic, Marko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; NUMERICAL MODELS; OPTICAL MULTILAYERS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHASE MATCHING;

B PHASE; MULTIDIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATION; MULTILAYER STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; OPTICAL SIMULATION; PHASE-MATCHING; PROPAGATION OF LIGHTS; RESOURCE-EFFICIENT; THICK LAYERS; TIME-EFFICIENT;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 84874375904     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIER13010407     Document Type: Article

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