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What kind of boundary condition should be applied to the edge of PML region?

Posted Feb 1, 2016, 4:18 a.m. EST RF & Microwave Engineering, Wave Optics Version 5.0 1 Reply

Harutaka Kawamura
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Hi, I'm trying to calculate confinement loss of optical fibers. What kind of boundary condition should be applied to the edge of PML region (the red line in the figure attached)?

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Awais Qureshi
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Posted: 9 years ago Feb 12, 2016, 6:17 a.m. EST
you may use scattering boundary conditions (SBC) on external most boundaries but for PML you can omit it as well...
you may use scattering boundary conditions (SBC) on external most boundaries but for PML you can omit it as well...

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