Study of periodic dispersive structures at oblique incidence by split-field FDTD method

Abstract

In this paper, the periodic structures are simulated by the split-field finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. By using this method, a set of auxiliary elements are introduced to represent the discretization of the Floquet transformed Maxwell's equations with oblique incidence. We here extend the split-field method to the study of 2D dispersive structures of Drude model combining with the Z transformation method. Some numerical experiments are presented to validate the code, and the obtained results are in good with the analytic results.