On the low-order partial-fraction fitting of dielectric functions at optical wavelengths

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6128-6135

  Michalski, Krzysztof A ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Curve fitting; Dispersive media; FDTD methods; Rational approximation; Vector fitting

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURVE FITTING; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; VECTORS;

DIELECTRIC FUNCTIONS; DISPERSIVE MEDIA; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; FUNCTION IDENTIFICATION; NONLINEAR OPTIMIZERS; RATIONAL APPROXIMATIONS; SANATHANAN-KOERNER ITERATION; VECTOR FITTING;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 84897681058     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2013.2282082     Document Type: Article

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