Efficient Effective Permittivity Treatment for the 2D-FDTD Simulation of Photonic Crystals
In this paper, we present an efficient effective permittivity treatment for the two-dimensional Finite-Difference Time-Domain (2D-FDTD) method that can be applied to dielectric interfaces. Various issues related to simulation arrangements are discussed based on the 60° photonic
crystal (PhC) waveguide bend as a test case. The transmission, obtained numerically, agrees very well with other two-dimensional simulation methods, namely the finite-element method (2D-FEM) and the 2D multiple multipole program (2D-MMP). Compared to other FDTD schemes, such as staircasing
and the volume averaging method, our model performs faster and provides more accurate results for the dielectric interface.
Keywords: FDTD METHOD; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 May 2007
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