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Photonic Wave Solutions

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We are educators and industry professionals who have worked in the field of optics and photonics for the past two decades. We currently train students & professionals and provide consulting services to enterprise organizations.

In most cases involving light interaction with arbitrary nanostructures or nanoparticles with arbitrary shapes, Maxwell’s equations need to be solved to capture the polarization-dependent scattering behavior. However, except for a handful of cases where structural symmetry can be exploited, no analytical solution exists. Numerical methods are used to compute the photonic response. Numerical methods are devised in both frequency and time domain that can solve Maxwell’s equations. Most optical problems require steady-state solution of Maxell’s equations. Frequency-domain methods such as, rigorous coupled wave analysis can be efficiently applied to treat periodic structures. However, in most cases involving complicated arbitrary structures finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) is the method of choice. It has become a standard tool used in the industry for simulation and design of nanophotonic devices. One of the main reasons for this is that in FDTD the electromagnetic boundary conditions across two contiguous media are implemented  automatically as the wave propagates along the space grid with advancing time step.