• DocumentCode
    1023113
  • Title

    Eliminating spurious modes in finite-element waveguide problems by using divergence-free fields

  • Author

    Kobelansky, A.J. ; Webb, Jon P.

  • Author_Institution
    McGill University, Computational Analysis & Design Laboratory Department of Electrical Engineering, Montreal, Canada
  • Volume
    22
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    1986
  • Firstpage
    569
  • Lastpage
    570
  • Abstract
    Spurious solutions in the finite-element analysis of the modes of waveguides and optical fibres are completely eliminated by the use of fields which are exactly divergence-free. Such fields are themselves computed by the finite-element method.
  • Keywords
    finite element analysis; optical fibres; optical waveguide theory; waveguide theory; divergence-free fields; finite-element analysis; finite-element waveguide problems; optical fibres; spurious modes elimination; spurious solutions elimination;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19860387
  • Filename
    4256583