Performance evaluation of several implicit FDTD methods for optical waveguide analyses

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2465-2471

  Shibayama, Jun ^a,b,c   Muraki, Mitsunori ^c   Takahashi, Ryo ^c   Yamauchi, Junji ^a,b,c   Nakano, Hisamatsu ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b OSA ^*  (Japan)

^c HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alternating direction implicit (ADI) scheme; Beam propagation method (BPM); Finite difference time domain method (FDTD); Locally one dimensional (LOD) scheme; Numerical dispersion; Optical waveguide; Waveguide grating

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING-DIRECTION IMPLICIT (ADI); BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD (BPM); NUMERICAL DISPERSION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; WAVEGUIDE GRATING; WAVELENGTH RESPONSES;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DISPERSIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; WAVELENGTH;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33748775952     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.874570     Document Type: Article

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