Abstract
A new technique for the analysis of two-dimensional diffractive optical elements, by use of the pseudospectral time-domain (PSTD) method, is presented. In particular, the method uses a nonuniform (NU) grid and a mapping technique to obtain very accurate spatial derivatives in an efficient manner. To this end, we present the formulation of the PSTD method by using a NU grid and compare its application to the analysis with that of the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. Using only a fraction of the memory and a fraction of the computation time used by FDTD, the mapped PSTD was able to obtain very close results to FDTD.
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