Comparative study of FDTD-adopted numerical algorithms for Kerr nonlinearities

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages 143-146

  Maksymov, Ivan S ^a   Sukhorukov, Andrey A ^a   Lavrinenko, Andrei V ^b   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain (FDTD); four wave mixing (FWM); nonlinearity; optical Kerr effect

Indexed keywords

3D MODELS; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; AUXILIARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CPU TIME; EXPLICIT SCHEME; FDTD MODELING; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN MODELING; ITERATIVE SOLUTIONS; KERR NONLINEARITY; NON-ITERATIVE; NON-LINEAR MEDIA; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR COMPUTATIONS; NONLINEAR PHASE; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; OPTICAL MEDIA; OPTICAL PULSE PROPAGATION; PUMP WAVES; SPEED-UPS; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FOUR WAVE MIXING; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTICAL PUMPING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

EID: 79953172224     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2011.2114319     Document Type: Article

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