Abstract
Time-domain local-operator methods have proven valuable in simulating electromagnetic phenomena from DC to light with simple and complex media. Certain limitations do exist with the time-domain local-operator methods including wall-clock simulation times and cells per wavelength requirements. This work achieves lower simulation times through code optimizations, algorithm optimizations and parallelism. This yields faster simulations times and lower cell per wavelength requirements. The improved method has been applied to a set of optical problems.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 813-826 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Optical and Quantum Electronics |
Volume | 31 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1999 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work has been supported by DoD, DARPA, NSF and DOE. NERSC (a DOE laboratory in Berkeley, CA) provided access to a 64 processor SGI Origin2000 machine with 26 gigabytes of main memory upon which the optical simulations were run. Many thanks to Michael DeClerck for his technical assistance in this effort.