Session B5 - Fundamental Theory and Electron Interactions.
MIXED session, Wednesday morning, June 14
UTEB 150,
We discuss how a spectral-domain method in combination with a split-operator technique can be used to calculate numerically time-dependent solutions of the Maxwell's equations for arbitrary inhomogeneous dielectric media. We apply this technique to various simple optical geometries involving refraction for which analytical solutions exist. We analyze the tunnelling dynamics due to frustrated total internal reflection which does not have any known analytical solutions. This technique is also used to determine the time-dependent field distribution due to multiple random scatters and focus on near-field effects that cannot be studied using the diffusion approximation.
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H. Wanare, Q. Su and R. Grobe, Phys. Rev. A, submitted. \par
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