The RCWA method - A case study with open questions and perspectives of algebraic computations

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Authors John J. Hench, Zdeněk Strakoš

Publication date 14 April 2010

Published in ETNA - Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/224590, http://www.emis.de/journals/ETNA/vol.31.2008/pp331-357.dir/pp331-357.pdf

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zbMATH Keywords

diffraction of electromagnetic wavesmatrix functionsMaxwell's equationsperiodic gratingsrigoruos coupled wave analysis (RCWA)scattering amplitudestructured matricestruncated Fourier expansions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Convergence and absolute convergence of Fourier and trigonometric series (42A20) Convolution, factorization for one variable harmonic analysis (42A85) Iterative numerical methods for linear systems (65F10) Numerical solution of boundary value problems involving ordinary differential equations (65L10) Diffraction, scattering (78A45)

Review text

A derivation of the RCWA (rigorous coupled wave analysis) method is presented. Open questions are discussed in the perspective of efficient solution of the related highly structured linear algebraic problem.

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