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Finite-difference time-domain technique is one of the most popular numerical approaches in computational nano-optics. It is a numerical solver of macroscopic Maxwell’s equations on a special grid in time domain utilizing finite differences.
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The field of nano-optics has been tremendously impacted by both a fast growth of laser technology and significant advances in nanofabrication techniques in recent years. Owing to such progress, researchers now have the ability to go far beyond the diffraction limit to explore optics at the nanoscale, opening up a wide variety of applications ranging from metamaterials, through plasmonic circuitry and efficient solar energy harvesting, to biomedical applications [1]. Among those applications is the long-standing question of controlling light at the subdiffraction scale aiming for optical nanodevices and nanoscale coherent sources operating in the visible region of spectrum [2]. From the fundamental physics point of...
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Sukharev, M. (2016). Finite-Difference Time-Domain Technique. In: Bhushan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9780-1_15
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