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IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters
Volume 9 Number 12, December 1999

Absorbing Boundary Conditions for FDTD Simulations of Photonic Crystal Waveguides

Page 502.

Abstract:

We present a novel numerical scheme for the reduction of spurious reflections in simulations of electromagnetic wave propagation in photonic crystal waveguides. We use a distributed Bragg reflector waveguide termination to reduce reflection from photonic crystal waveguide ends by improving k-matching for photonic crystal waveguided modes. We describe computational procedures and exhibit that a significant reduction in reflection amplitude can be achieved across a large part of the guided mode spectrum. This method enables one to reduce simply and effectively the computational requirements in photonic crystal waveguide simulations.

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