Multi-GPU-accelerated FDTD method for PhC fibers characterization

Author

Guryev, I.V. ; Sukhoivanov, I.A. ; Gurieva, N.S. ; Andrade Lucio, J.-A. ; Vargas Rodriguez, E. ; Manzano, O. G. Ibarra

Author_Institution

Eng. Div., Univ. of Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico

fYear

2013

fDate

11-13 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

68

Lastpage

70

Abstract

In the work, we have studied the PhC fiber dispersion characteristics by means of the FDTD technique. The method has been accelerated using CUDA-compatible GPU cards and its stability was compared with classical CPU computing. In contrast to other numerical methods, the FDTD allows studying the beam propagation along the fiber taking into account material dispersion and the nonlinearity. To improve the method performance, we have concentrated attention on the method details that allowed reduce dramatically the computation time and achieve the accuracy close to the one provided by the finite elements method.

Keywords

finite difference time-domain analysis; holey fibres; nonlinear optics; optical engineering computing; optical fibre dispersion; photonic crystals; CUDA-compatible GPU cards; PhC fiber dispersion characterization; beam propagation; material dispersion; multiGPU-accelerated FDTD method; photonic crystal fibers; Acceleration; Dispersion; Finite difference methods; Finite element analysis; Graphics processing units; MATLAB; Time-domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Laser and Fiber-Optical Networks Modeling (LFNM), 2013 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sudak

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0158-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LFNM.2013.6644838

Filename

6644838