TY  - JOUR
AU  - Trieu, B.
AU  - Michielsen, K.
AU  - De Raedt, H.
TI  - Event-based simulation of light propagation in lossless dielectric media
JO  - Computer physics communications
VL  - 182
SN  - 0010-4655
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - North Holland Publ. Co.
M1  - PreJuSER-13730
SP  - 726 - 734
PY  - 2011
N1  - Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012
AB  - We describe an event-based approach to simulate the propagation of an electromagnetic plane wave through dielectric media. The basic building block is a deterministic learning machine that is able to simulate a plane interface. We show that a network of two of such machines can simulate the propagation of light through a plane parallel plate. With properly chosen parameters this setup can be used as a beam splitter. The modularity of the simulation method is illustrated by constructing a Mach-Zehnder interferometer from plane parallel plates, the whole system reproducing the results of wave theory. A generalization of the event-based model of the plane parallel plate is also used to simulate a periodically stratified medium. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
KW  - J (WoSType)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000287432200019
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.cpc.2010.12.017
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/13730
ER  -