Improved finite-difference scheme for vector beam propagation method

Jiri Petracek; Allan D. Boardman; Kirat Singh

doi:10.1117/12.301354

1 January 1998 Improved finite-difference scheme for vector beam propagation method

Jiri Petracek, Allan D. Boardman, Kirat Singh

Proceedings Volume 3320, Tenth Polish-Czech-Slovak Optical Conference: Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.301354
Event: Tenth Polish-Czech-Slovak Optical Conference: Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 1996, Karpacz, Poland

Abstract

We developed a novel finite-difference vector beam propagation method for three-dimensional waveguide structures. The method uses a vector electric field propagating in an inhomogeneous medium under slowly varying envelope approximation. The form birefringence and the coupling between transverse field components are taken into account. The scheme proposed for solving coupled paraxial vector wave equations is based on the operator splitting technique. The resulting algebraic equations are tridiagonal. The method is stable and very efficient.

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Jiri Petracek, Allan D. Boardman, and Kirat Singh "Improved finite-difference scheme for vector beam propagation method", Proc. SPIE 3320, Tenth Polish-Czech-Slovak Optical Conference: Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, (1 January 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.301354

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