Comparison between staggered and unstaggered finite-difference time-domain grids for few-cycle temporal optical soliton propagation

DOI10.1006/jcph.2000.6460zbMath0960.78015WikidataQ60155407 ScholiaQ60155407MaRDI QIDQ1578076

N. Delaunay

Publication date: 27 August 2000

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/e73608edcd72ddcd3a4ee1144b7f87dd79579cab

zbMATH Keywords

stability; accuracy; Maxwell's equations; nonlinear optics; staggered grids; optical solitons; finite-difference time-domain method; material dispersion; spatial central discretizations; unstaggered grids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

78M20: Finite difference methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory

78A60: Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics

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