Fast time-domain simulation of optical waveguide structures with a multilevel dynamically adaptive mesh refinement FDTD approach

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3235-3247

  Liu, Yaxun ^a   Callender, Costas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dielectric waveguides; Finite difference methods; Mesh generation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL DESIGN; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MESH GENERATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURES; TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33747586316     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.876899     Document Type: Article

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