Implementing the near- To far-field transformation in the finite-difference time-domain method

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 3738-3746

  Zhai, Peng Wang ^a   Lee, Yong Keun ^b   Kattawar, George W ^b   Yang, Ping ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Physics ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; FERROELECTRIC DEVICES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRATING CIRCUITS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; PHASE METERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FAR-FIELD TRANSFORMATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHOD; LORENZ-MIE THEORY; SURFACE INTEGRAL METHOD (SIM); T-MATRIX METHOD;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 3042806431     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.003738     Document Type: Article

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