• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 12, Issue 4, 865 (2024)
Zhenghao Guo1、2、†, Mengjun Liu3、4、†, Zijia Chen1、2, Ruizhi Yang3、4, Peiyun Li1、2, Haixia Da5、6, Dong Yuan1、2, Guofu Zhou1、2, Lingling Shui3、4、7, and Huapeng Ye1、2、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Information Materials and Technology & Institute of Electronic Paper Displays, South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China
  • 2SCNU-TUE Joint Lab of Device Integrated Responsive Materials (DIRM), National Center for International Research on Green Optoelectronics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China
  • 3Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices, School of Information and Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China
  • 4Joint Laboratory of Optofluidic Technology and Systems, National Center for International Research on Green Optoelectronics, South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China
  • 5College of Electronic and Optical Engineering & College of Microelectronics, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210046, China
  • 6Key Laboratory of Radio Frequency and Micro-Nano Electronics of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing 210023, China
  • 7e-mail: shuill@m.scnu.edu.cn
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.516364 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Zhenghao Guo, Mengjun Liu, Zijia Chen, Ruizhi Yang, Peiyun Li, Haixia Da, Dong Yuan, Guofu Zhou, Lingling Shui, Huapeng Ye. Highly efficient nonuniform finite difference method for three-dimensional electrically stimulated liquid crystal photonic devices[J]. Photonics Research, 2024, 12(4): 865 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Liquid crystal (LC) photonic devices have attracted intensive attention in recent decades, due to the merits of tunability, cost-effectiveness, and high efficiency. However, the precise and efficient simulation of large-scale three-dimensional electrically stimulated LC photonic devices remains challenging and resource consuming. Here we report a straightforward nonuniform finite difference method (NFDM) for efficiently simulating large-scale LC photonic devices by employing a spatially nonuniform mesh grid. We show that the NFDM can be further accelerated by approximately 504 times by using the improved successive over-relaxation method (by 12 times), the symmetric boundary (by 4 times), the momentum gradient descent algorithm (by 3.5 times), and the multigrid (by 3 times). We experimentally fabricated the large-scale electrically stimulated LC photonic device, and the measured results demonstrate the effectiveness and validity of the proposed NFDM. The NFDM allocates more grids to the core area with steep electric field gradient, thus reducing the distortion of electric field and the truncation error of calculation, rendering it more precise than the finite element method and traditional finite difference method with similar computing resources. This study demonstrates an efficient and highly reliable method to simulate the large-scale electrically stimulated LC photonic device, and paves the way for customizing a large-scale LC photonic device with designable functionalities.
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    Zhenghao Guo, Mengjun Liu, Zijia Chen, Ruizhi Yang, Peiyun Li, Haixia Da, Dong Yuan, Guofu Zhou, Lingling Shui, Huapeng Ye. Highly efficient nonuniform finite difference method for three-dimensional electrically stimulated liquid crystal photonic devices[J]. Photonics Research, 2024, 12(4): 865
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