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
