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An Alternative Method to Analyze Field Distribution in Curved Dielectric Waveguides

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A simple and effective method is proposed to analyze the field distribution of a curved dielectric waveguide with rectangular cross-section. Numerical results are compared with the measured values. It is shown that the present approach is effective and reliable.

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  1. Department of Electronic Engineering and Information Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230027, People's Republic of China

    Kaiyu Mao & Shanjia Xu

  2. State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096

    Kaiyu Mao & Shanjia Xu

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Mao, K., Xu, S. An Alternative Method to Analyze Field Distribution in Curved Dielectric Waveguides. International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves 21, 1321–1329 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026408318805

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