Exact solution of Maxwell's equations for optical interactions with a macroscopic random medium: addendum. Academic Article

abstract

• This Addendum provides a revised set of figures containing converged numerical data for total scattering cross section (TSCS), replacing the figures in our recent publication [Opt. Lett. 29, 1393 (2004)]. Due to the use of an overly large time step, our original TSCS data exhibited a systematic, nonphysical diminution above 150 THz for all cases studied. We have determined that numerical convergence in the temporal sense for the pseudospectral time-domain (PSTD) algorithm employed previously requires limiting the time step to no more than 1/60th of the sinusoidal period at the maximum frequency of interest, which in the previous case was 300 THz. This is an important point that we hereby report to future users of PSTD simulations in electrodynamics and optics. Note that all our original conclusions remain valid.

authors

• Maitland, Duncan

published proceedings

• Opt Lett

author list (cited authors)

• Tseng, S. H., Greene, J. H., Taflove, A., Maitland, D., Backman, V., & Walsh, J. T.

citation count

• 5

complete list of authors

• Tseng, Snow H||Greene, Jethro H||Taflove, Allen||Maitland, Duncan||Backman, Vadim||Walsh, Joseph T

publication date

• January 2005

publisher

• Optica Publishing Group  Publisher

published in

• Optics Letters  Journal

keywords

• Algorithms
• Computer Simulation
• Electric Conductivity
• Electrochemistry
• Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted
• Models, Biological
• Models, Statistical
• Nephelometry And Turbidimetry
• Optics And Photonics

PubMed Central ID

• 15648636

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1364/ol.30.000056

start page

• 56

end page

• 57

volume

• 30

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ol.30.000056