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Active Media FDTD Nanophotonic Device Simulator
Modeling and analysis of solid state, molecular or atomic semiconductor photonics media.
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Published on 31 May 2011 All versions
doi:10.4231/D3NV9998P cite this
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The "Active Media FDTD Nanophotonic Device Simulator" is a general computational model of complex material media for electrodynamics simulation using the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method. It is based on a multi-level multi-electron
quantum system with electron dynamics governed by Pauli Exclusion Principle, state filling, and dynamical Fermi-Dirac Thermalization, enabling it to treat various solid-state, molecular, or atomic media. The formulation is valid at near or far off resonance as well as at high intensity. We show its FDTD application to a semiconductor in which the carriers’ intraband and interband dynamics, energy band filling, and thermal processes were all incorporated for the first time. The FDTD model is sufficiently complex and yet computationally efficient, enabling it to simulate nanophotonic devices
with complex electromagnetic structures requiring simultaneous solution of the mediumfield dynamics in space and time. Applications to direct-gap semiconductors, ultrafast optical phenomena, and multimode microdisk lasers are illustrated.
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Huang, Y.; Ho, S.-T. Optics 2006, 14, 3569
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