Gaussian Beam on a Periodic Structure
Application ID: 115701
This shows how a Gaussian beam incident on a periodic structure can be efficiently simulated. This could be applied to structured surfaces like metasurfaces or diffraction gratings.
Because of superposition, only a single unit cell needs to be simulated. This can provide extremely efficient simulations even for beam waists that are much larger than the structure and/or wavelength.
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