Large Scale Simulation for Optical Propagation in 3-D Photonic Crystal using the FDTD Method with Parallel Processing

Author

Hanawa, Toshihiro ; Ikuno, Soichiro

Author_Institution

Tokyo Univ. of Technol.

fYear

0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

403

Lastpage

403

Abstract

In this paper, the optical propagation in the 3-D photonic crystal optical waveguide is simulated numerically using the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. Since the division number of the domain increases to indicate the structure of the photonic crystal precisely, huge memory is required, and it takes much time to solve the problem. Furthermore, using the micron-order wavelength need much more division number. Therefore, we apply this problem for parallel processing using a PC cluster not only to speed up but also to gather memories in each node

Keywords

finite difference time-domain analysis; light propagation; optical computing; parallel processing; photonic crystals; 3D photonic crystal optical waveguide; FDTD method; PC cluster; finite difference time domain; large scale simulation; micron-order wavelength; optical propagation; parallel processing; Finite difference methods; Large-scale systems; Optical filters; Optical propagation; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Parallel processing; Photonic band gap; Photonic crystals;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electromagnetic Field Computation, 2006 12th Biennial IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Miami, FL

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0320-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CEFC-06.2006.1633193

Filename

1633193