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In this paper, we propose a novel numerical method for modeling nanostructures containing dispersive and nonlinear two-dimensional (2D) materials, by incorporating a nonlinear generalized source (GS) into the finite-difference time-domain…

The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is a well established method for solving the time evolution of Maxwell's equations. Unfortunately the scheme introduces numerical dispersion and therefore phase and group velocities which…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-05 Alexander Blinne , David Schinkel , Stephan Kuschel , Nina Elkina , Sergey Rykovanov , Matt Zepf

We present a proof of concept for solving a 1+1D complex-valued, delay partial differential equation (PDE) that emerges in the study of waveguide quantum electrodynamics (QED) by adapting the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Yao-Lung L. Fang

We present a corrective subcell averaging technique that improves on the accuracy of the volume-averaged finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method in the presence of dispersive material interfaces. The method is based on an alternative…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Joachim Hamm , Fabian Renn , Ortwin Hess

Near- and far-field optical properties of silicon nanostructures under linear polarization (Gaussian beam), and azimuthally or radially focused cylindrical vector beams are investigated by finite-difference time-domain method (FDTD) in Meep…

It is known that the digital waveguide (DW) method for solving the wave equation numerically on a grid can be manipulated into the form of the standard finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method (also known as the ``leapfrog'' recursion).…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Julius O. Smith

Using the FDTD method, we investigate the electromagnetic propagation in two-dimensional photonic crystals, formed by parallel air cylinders in a dielectric medium. The corresponding frequency band structure is computed using the standard…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Hung-Ta Chien , Hui-Ting Tang , Chao-Hsien Kuo , Chii-Chang Chen , Zhen Ye

In this work, we present a numerical method that remedies the instabilities of the conventional FDTD approach for solving Maxwell's equations in a space-time dependent magneto-electric medium with direct application to the simulation of the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jason Cornelius , Jinjie Liu , Moysey Brio

The Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method is a well-known technique for the analysis of quantum devices. It solves a discretized Schrodinger equation in an explicitly iterative process. However, the method requires the spatial grid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-05 Frederick Ira Moxley , Weizhong Dai

One of the most popular methods employed in computational electromagnetics is the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method. We generalise it to a meshless setting using the Radial Basis Function generated Finite Difference (RBF-FD)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Andrej Kolar-Požun , Gregor Kosec

We investigate the lasing action in coupled multi-row nanopillar waveguides of periodic or fractal structure using the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method, coupled to the laser rate equations. Such devices exhibit band splitting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Zhukovsky , D. N. Chigrin , A. V. Lavrinenko , J. Kroha

We extend the Finite-Difference Time-Domain method to treat dispersive magnetic media by incorporating magneto-optical effects through a frequency-dependent permittivity tensor. For benchmarking our method, we consider the light scattering…

The ability to control the asymmetric propagation of light in nanophotonic waveguides is of fundamental importance for optical communications and on-chip signal processing. However, in most studies so far, the design of such structures has…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-29 Heran Zhang , Fengchun Zhang , Yao Liang , Xu-Guang Huang , Baohua Jia

The increasing complexity and scale of photonic and electromagnetic devices demand efficient and accurate numerical solvers. In this work, we develop a parallel overlapping domain decomposition method (DDM) based on the finite-difference…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-26 Zhanwen Wang , Chengnian Huang , Wangtao Lu , Yuntian Chen , Wei E. I. Sha

In this paper, a tunable plasmonic refractive index sensor with nanoring-strip graphene arrays is numerically investigated by the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. The simulation results exhibit that by changing the sensing…

This work studies the parallelization and empirical convergence of two finite difference acoustic wave propagation methods on 2-D rectangular grids, that use the same alternating direction implicit (ADI) time integration. This ADI…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-16 B. Otero , O. Rojas , F. Moya , J. Castillo

Optical properties of hybrid plasmonic waveguides and of low-Q cavities, formed by waveguides of finite length are investigated numerically. These structures are of interest as building-blocks of plasmon lasers. We use a time-harmonic…

Optics · Physics 2010-09-09 S. Burger , L. Zschiedrich , J. Pomplun , F. Schmidt

We present a numerical approach to efficiently calculate spin-wave dispersions and spatial mode profiles in magnetic waveguides of arbitrarily shaped cross section with any non-collinear equilibrium magnetization which is translationally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Lukas Körber , Gwendolyn Quasebarth , Andreas Otto , Attila Kákay

The letter contains an important message regarding the numerical modeling of left-handed media (LHM) using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method which remains at the moment one of the main techniques used in studies of these…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Yan Zhao , Pavel Belov , Yang Hao

We demonstrate that the finite difference grid method (FDM) can be simply modified to satisfy the variational principle and enable calculations of both real and complex poles of the scattering matrix. These complex poles are known as…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-08-17 Roie Dann , Guy Elbaz , Jonathan Berkheim , Alan Muhafra , Omri Nitecki , Daniel Wilczynski , Nimrod Moiseyev