Meep: A flexible free-software package for electromagnetic simulations by the FDTD method

By Ardavan F. Oskooi, David Roundy, Mihai Ibanescu, Peter Bermel, John D. Joannopoulos, Steven G. Johnson. Computer Physics Communications, 2010

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This paper describes Meep, a popular free implementation of the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method for simulating electromagnetism. In particular, we focus on aspects of implementing a full-featured FDTD package that go beyond standard textbook descriptions of the algorithm, or ways in which Meep differs from typical FDTD implementations. These include pervasive interpolation and accurate modeling of subpixel features, advanced signal processing, support for nonlinear materials via Pade approximants, and flexible scripting capabilities.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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3. A. Faraon
4. Amir Arbabi
5. Y. Horie
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Citations in the corpus

• Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS): progress and trends (2012, methodology): “the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method [54, 55], finite element method (FEM) [56], or rigorous coupled”
• Materials perspective on Casimir and van der Waals interactions (2015, background): “For instance, they are extremely simple to implement (leading to many free and easy-to-use numerical packages (Oskooi et al., 2010), can handle many different kinds of boundary conditions and materials (including anisotropic and even nonlinear dielectrics), and are well understood.”
• Controlling the sign of chromatic dispersion in diffractive optics (2017, positive): “4e-4h) were performed using a normally incident plane-wave illumination with a Gaussian amplitude in time (and thus a Gaussian spectrum) in MEEP [42].”
• Solar thermophotovoltaic energy conversion systems with two-dimensional tantalum photonic crystal absorbers and emitters (2014, background): “Overall, the normal and hemispherically averaged radiative properties are extremely close to the values obtained from the exact finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) implementation [21,40].”