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Efficient simulators for multi-source nanophotonics

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A method for making large-scale nanophotonic simulations more computationally efficient is proposed, enabling a wide range of studies to be less time- and memory-intensive.

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Fig. 1: Generalized scattering matrix S solved in the APF for obtaining the interested photonic response to the interested excitation source.

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  1. Institute of Modern Optics, College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

    Haitao Liu

  2. Tianjin Key Laboratory of Micro-scale Optical Information Science and Technology, Tianjin, China

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