On the computation of eigenmodes of integrated optical components

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Authors Tilmann Friese

Publication date 8 February 2000

Published in Surveys on Mathematics for Industry (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

eigenvaluesHelmholtz equationMaxwell equationsmultigrid algorithmsnumerical exampleSchur problemswaveguides

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Numerical methods for eigenvalue problems for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N25) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Multigrid methods; domain decomposition for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N55) Antennas, waveguides in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A50) Finite element, Galerkin and related methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M10)

Review text

For the propagation of light in a waveguide, the author first describes the reduction of the Maxwell equations to an eigenproblem for the scalar Helmholtz equation with a complex coefficient which may vary in space. Next, multigrid algorithms for such problems are discussed. Here, at the end, he turns to the advantages of the approach of Deuflhard and coworkers (including the author) to solve a sequence of projected Schur problems. Finally, as numerical example, a waveguide consisting of 3 specific materials is considered which leads, in general, to a nonselfadjoint problem. This is solved using the proposed methodology by an adaptive multigrid method and in dependence on a material parameter.

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