The incorporation of microscopic material models into the FDTD Approach for Ultrafast Optical Pulse Simulations

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 375-391

  Ziolkowski, Richard W ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Fdtd methods; Optical pulses

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT MODULATORS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; QUANTUM THEORY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

MAXWELL BLOCH MODEL; OPTICAL TRIODE; RESONANT OPTICAL MATERIALS; TWO LEVEL ATOM MODEL;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0031100440     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.558653     Document Type: Article

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