High accuracy simulations of optical propagation in nanophotonic devices

James B Cole; Saswatee Banerjee; Rakchanok Rungsawang

doi:10.1016/j.micron.2006.07.006

High accuracy simulations of optical propagation in nanophotonic devices

Micron. 2007;38(2):109-14. doi: 10.1016/j.micron.2006.07.006. Epub 2006 Jul 31.

Authors

James B Cole¹, Saswatee Banerjee, Rakchanok Rungsawang

Affiliation

¹ University of Tsukuba, Department of Systems and Information Engineering, Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan. cole@is.tsukuba.ac.jp

PMID: 17092731
DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2006.07.006

Abstract

We introduce a new high accuracy second-order finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) algorithm based on non-standard finite differences, and use it to investigate light propagation in subwavelength structures such as photonic crystals.