Explicit finite-difference simulation of optical integrated devices on massive parallel computers

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1191-1197

  Sterkenburgh, Tomas ^a   Michels, Rolf Michael ^a   Dress, Peter ^a   Franke, Hilmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain; Massive parallel computer; Simulation of optical devices

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSPUTERS; WAVEGUIDES;

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; DISCRETIZATION SCHEME; FRESNEL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL LOSSES; SLAVE PROCESSORS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

EID: 0031076735     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.001191     Document Type: Article

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