Perfectly matched layer in numerical wave propagation: Factors that affect its performance

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 4225-4231

  Agrawal, Arti ^a   Sharma, Anurag ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTIMIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EVANESCENT MODE ENERGY; PERFECTLY MATCHED LAYERS (PML);

WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 3442878678     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.004225     Document Type: Article

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