Analysis on the efficiency of parallel FDTD method and its application in two-dimensional photonic crystal

Abstract

A new kind of parallel finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is used to calculate and analyze the transmission properties of photonic crystal. The effectiveness and the accuracy of parallel FDTD method were proved by the typical two-dimensional sine wave. The result shows that parallel FDTD method, which can save time effectively in electromagnetic problems with large size and long time, performs as accurate as the series one. This method, whose results shows that the photonic band gap normalized frequency moves to the low-frequency direction with the enlargement of the section area of the square cylinder and that the band gap gets thinner, is applied to simulate and analyze the two-dimensional photonic crystal and gives calculating method and analyzing accordance to calculate and analyze large-sized photonic crystal structure.