This meticulously arranged reference/text introduces a variety of spectral computational techniques, including k-space theory, Floquet theory, and beam propagation, that are used to analyze a variety of electromagnetic and optical problems.

Solves Maxwell’s equations from a set of first order coupled partial differential equations!

Presenting current, efficient, and stable numerical algorithms and supplying researchers with an array of tools for problem solving, Computational Methods for Electromagnetic and Optical Systems

• offers a concise review of k-space, state variable analysis, including application to anisotropic and bianisotropic planar systems
• presents a full-field rigorous coupled wave analysis of isotropic and anisotropic transmission, and slanted, crossed, and reflection gratings-including single- and multi-layer theory
• validates the complex Poynting theorem for radiation from anisotropic and bianisotropic planar systems, and diffraction from gratings
• reviews the split-step beam propagation method, including application to diffraction gratings, self-diffraction in nonlinear materials, wave mixing and beam fanning in photorefractive materials, and z-scan analysis of thick nonlinear materials
• presents a novel application of rigorous coupled wave analysis to scattering from two- and three-dimensionally inhomogeneous cylindrical and spherical objects
• introduces modal propagation in anisotropic, inhomogeneous waveguides and anisotropic, transversely periodic media using state variable and full-field analysis
• applies spectral techniques in conjunction with material analysis to an important research area-analysis of dynamic wave-mixing in photorefractive materials
• and much more!

Providing over 850 equations, Computational Methods for Electromagnetic and Optical Systems ties together different applications from electromagnetics and optics that use state variable and spectral analyses; is an excellent reference for electrical, optical, electronics, and computer engineers; and research and applied physicists; and an ideal text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.