Mathematical analysis of a finite element method without spurious solutions for computation of dielectric waveguides

SummaryIn this paper we propose a finite element method to compute dielectric waveguides which does not present spurious solutions. In addition to a theoretical analysis showing the good stability properties of this method, we give numerical results for some classical test problems.

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