Higher-order-compact time-domain numerical simulation of optical waveguides

Time-domain local-operator methods have proven valuable in simulating elect romagnetic phenomena from DC to light with simple and complex media. Certai n limitations do exist with the time-domain local-operator methods includin g wall-clock simulation times and cells per wavelength requirements. This w ork achieves lower simulation times through code optimizations, algorithm o ptimizations and parallelism. This yields faster simulations times and lowe r cell per wavelength requirements. The improved method has been applied to a set of optical problems.