FDTD-modelling of dispersive nonlinear ring resonators: Accuracy studies and experiments

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1215-1223

  Koos, Christian ^a   Fujii, Masafumi ^b   Poulton, Christopher G ^c   Steingrueber, Ralf ^d   Leuthold, Juerg ^a   Freude, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods; Microresonators; Nonlinear optics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR CORRECTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; MATERIAL DISPERSION; MICRORESONATORS; RING RESONATOR; STAIR-CASING ERROR CORRECTION;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 33751376413     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2006.883467     Document Type: Article

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