Accurate FDTD simulation of anisotropic media by subpixel smoothing

Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) methods suffer from reduced accuracy when discretizing discontinuous materials. We previously showed that accuracy can be significantly improved by using subpixel smoothing of the isotropic dielectric function, but only if the smoothing scheme is properly desi...

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Main Authors: Oskooi, Ardavan, Kottke, Chris, Johnson, Steven G.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Materials Science and Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Optical Society of America 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49474
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-4967