Objectives

• To know the rudiments of different numerical methods for optics.
• To know how to model some simple problems with these numerical methods
• To know the fields of application and the limitations of these methods

Description

• Introduction and initiation to various advanced numerical methods for photonics:
• FDTD: Finite Difference Time Domain for electromagnetic/optical modelling
• Fourier methods for optical modelling of 2D periodic objects. (Rigorous Coupled Wave Method, Modal Methods).
• PSTD: Pseudo-spectral time domain
• NLS: Solving a nonlinear Shrödinger equation by Split Step Fourier