Simulation of optical resonators using DGTD and FDTD

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Niegemann, J ^a   Pernice, W ^b   Busch, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

DGTD; Discontinuous Galerkin; FDTD; Finite difference time domain; Optical microresonators

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; CURVED SURFACES; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN; EXPONENTIAL CONVERGENCE; FDTD METHOD; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; GEOMETRICAL PROBLEMS; GRID-SPACINGS; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; OPTICAL MICRORESONATORS; PHASE ERROR; SECOND-ORDER ACCURACY; TIME DOMAIN; TRIANGULAR ELEMENTS;

GALERKIN METHODS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; OPTICAL RESONATORS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

EID: 72649096980     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/11/11/114015     Document Type: Article

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