A stable fourth-order FDTD method for modeling electrically long dielectric waveguides

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1048-1055

  Hwang, Kyu Pyung ^a,b   Ihm, Jae Yong ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence of numerical methods; Dielectric waveguides; Finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods; Optical waveguide; Waveguide discontinuities

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; FOURTH ORDER METHODS; NUMERICAL CHARACTERISTICS; NUMERICAL EFFICIENCY; WAVEGUIDE DISCONTINUITIES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33947177851     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.862440     Document Type: Article

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