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An Effective $z$-Stretching Adaptive Finite Difference Method for Paraxial Light Beam Propagation Simulations

Numerical Analysis 2010-06-09 v1 Optics

Abstract

A new zz-stretching finite difference method is established for simulating the paraxial light beam propagation through a lens in a cylindrically symmetric domain. By introducing proper domain transformations, we solve corresponding difference approximations on a uniform grid in the computational space for great efficiency. A specialized matrix analysis method is constructed to study the numerical stability. Interesting computational results are presented.

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@article{arxiv.1006.1607,
  title  = {An Effective $z$-Stretching Adaptive Finite Difference Method for Paraxial Light Beam Propagation Simulations},
  author = {Leonel Gonzalez and Shekhar Guha and James W. Rogers and Qin Sheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.1607},
  year   = {2010}
}

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18 pages