• DocumentCode
    1151489
  • Title

    A vector beam propagation method based on H fields

  • Author

    Huang, W.-P. ; Xu, C.L. ; Chaudhuri, S.K.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada
  • Volume
    3
  • Issue
    12
  • fYear
    1991
  • Firstpage
    1117
  • Lastpage
    1120
  • Abstract
    A vector beam propagation (VBM) method based on transverse magnetic fields (H-formulation) is developed and presented. By considering the vector property of the transverse differential operators, the polarizations of the propagating electromagnetic waves are modeled and simulated by the finite-difference solutions. A comparison with the vector beam propagation method based on the E fields is made and the results are found to be in excellent agreement. It is shown that the FD-VBPM based on the H formulation is equivalent to that based on the E formulation.<>
  • Keywords
    electromagnetic wave polarisation; electromagnetic wave propagation; vectors; waveguide theory; E fields; EM wave polarisation; H fields; finite-difference solutions; propagating electromagnetic waves; transverse differential operators; transverse magnetic fields; vector beam propagation method; Electromagnetic propagation; Finite difference methods; Helium; Magnetic fields; Optical devices; Optical propagation; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Polarization; Refractive index;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/68.118026
  • Filename
    118026