INDEX
yAiry pattern 21
Antenna 1, 39, 40, 45, 51, 52, 63,
65
BASICSTEP 16, 18, 24, 54, 62
Boundary 7, 15, 19, 29, 31, 33-35,
54
C++ 7, 43
Conductor 2, 16-18, 51
Constants 41, 48
Convergence 7, 22, 30, 35, 49, 82,
83
Curve 18-20, 27, 28, 60
Cylinder 20
Debug 10, 52
Decimate 22
Dielectric 16-18, 41, 51, 53, 54
Dielectric constant 17
Dissipation 2, 26, 27, 38, 40, 49,
57, 58-60, 69, 72
Divergence 34, 35, 81
Domain 3, 7, 15, 16, 18-20, 22, 23,
27, 31-34, 49, 54, 62,
67, 68-74, 81, 82, 84,
85
DXF File (Autocad Drawing
Exchange Format)
1, 23, 62
Fan 18, 19, 51, 54, 55, 85
Far-field 1, 7, 24, 25, 86
File format 3, 25
Finite-difference time domain
(FDTD) method 2,
3, 6, 7, 34, 35, 48,
49, 81, 82, 86
Finite-element 49
Floating point 25, 81
Floating point exception
EM_DENORMAL 81
EM_UNDERFLOW 81
EM_ZERODIVIDE 81
Floating-point control register 81
Flux 1, 24, 32, 37, 38, 57, 58
Front end 6
Gaussian beam 21, 35, 38, 41, 42,
48
Ghosh, Gorachand 48
Grating 1, 18, 19, 85
Guess 28, 29, 37, 56, 75
Hagness, Susan 49
Hello, World 81
Heuristics 33
Hollowbox 19, 33, 54, 83
Illumination 1, 20, 31, 32, 34, 35,
42, 82, 84, 85
Infinity 81
Input file 1, 3, 6, 7, 10, 13, 62, 63,
65, 75
Logarithmic 8, 28, 65
Loopback interface 83
Mathematical functions 43
MATLAB 7
Merit function 7, 29, 37, 51, 85
Metal 16-18, 53
Mode matching 2, 8, 38
Modefile 21, 25, 36, 41, 51, 55, 81,
85
Motivation 1
Movie 26
Movie3d 8, 26
Mu law (CCITT µ-255) 28, 60
Nelder-Mead downhill simplex
method 3, 37, 56,
85
Normal conductor 2, 17, 51
Not A Number (NaN) 81
Numerical Recipes 3, 4
Optimization 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 19,
22, 28, 29, 37, 39,
51, 52, 63, 65, 82
Palette 8, 27, 28, 58-61, 65
saturation 27
Palik, E. M. 48
Parameter stepping 84, 85
Penalty function 4, 7, 8, 22, 29,
30, 37, 56
Perfectly-matched layer 2
Perfectly-matched layer (PML) 2,
16, 19, 20, 33, 34,
36, 52-54, 63, 64, 83,
84, 86
88