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Numerical simulation of resonance structures with FDTD algorithms based on GPU B-CALM and CPU Meep

Optical and Quantum Electronics, ISSN: 1572-817X, Vol: 46, Issue: 8, Page: 1021-1026
2014
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Simulation time is one of the bottlenecks of finite-difference-time-domain (FDTD) method. There are several ways of reducing the simulation time, one of which is the usage of graphical processing unit (GPU). Thus in this paper we present comparison between two free FDTD software packages. One is based on central processing unit and other is based on GPU. The 3D test structures we analyzed were metallic rectangular cavity resonator and microring resonator based refractive index sensor. The comparison between two FDTD software packages is made with regard to simulation time and numerical accuracy. It is shown that both packages agree in numerical results and that GPU based FDTD implementation performs same simulation up to 18 times faster. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media New York.

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