Application of the iterative approach to modal methods for the solution of Maxwell's equations

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2015.07.052MaRDI QIDQ2374709zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Igor Semenikhin, Mauro Zanuccoli

Publication date 5 December 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02728

zbMATH Keywords

computational complexitydiffraction gratingsiterative approachMaxwell's equationsmodal methodsscattering matrix

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Maxwell equations (35Q61) Numerical computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices (65F15) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25)

Abstract: In this work we discuss the possibility to reduce the computational complexity of modal methods, i.e. methods based on eigenmodes expansion, from the third power to the second power of the number of eigenmodes. The proposed approach is based on the calculation of the eigenmodes part by part by using shift-and-invert iterative technique and by applying the iterative approach to solve linear equations to compute eigenmodes expansion coefficients. As practical implementation, the iterative modal methods based on polynomials and trigonometric functions as well as on finite-difference scheme are developed. Alternatives to the scattering matrix (S-matrix) technique which are based on pure iterative or mixed direct-iteractive approaches allowing to markedly reduce the number of required numerical operations are discussed. Additionally, the possibility of diminishing the memory demand of the whole algorithm from second to first power of the number of modes by implementing the iterative approach is demonstrated. This allows to carry out calculations up to hundreds of thousands eigenmodes without using a supercomputer.

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Uses Software

• LAPACK
• ARPACK

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