Plane-wave expansion methods for classical diffraction theory equations, coupled with the direct numerical solution of Maxwell's equations using local grid refinement and the finite-difference time-domain method, help us reliably simulate an optical system's macroscopic and subwavelength components.
['A. R. Zakharian', 'Jerome V. Moloney', 'Masud Mansuripur']
Simulating near-field effects in high-density optical-disk data storage