A hardware-independent solution for high-performance simulations of the Maxwell-Bloch system

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2019

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Silva, NA (Author) Other; Ferreira, TD (Author) Other; Guerreiro, A (Author) FCUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLICATIONS OF OPTICS AND PHOTONICS

4th International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics (AOP)

Univ Lisbon, Lisbon, PORTUGAL, MAY 31-JUN 04, 2019

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Authenticus ID: P-00R-8E5

DOI: 10.1117/12.2527336

Abstract (EN): The interaction of light with matter in near-to-resonant conditions opens a path for the exploration of nontrivial optical response that can play an important role in future photonics-driven technology. But as the attention shifts towards many-level atomic systems and involving multi-dimensional experimental scenarios, the complexity of the physical systems makes the analytical approach to the semiclassical model of the MaxwellBloch equations impossible without any strongly-limiting approximations. In this context, robust and highperformance computational tools are mandatory. In this work, we describe the development and implementation of a cross-platform Maxwell-Bloch numerical solver that is capable to exploit the different hardware available to tackle efficiently the problems under consideration. Moreover, it is demonstrated that this simulation tool can address a vast class of problems with considerable reduction of simulation time, featuring speedups up to 30 when running in massive parallel GPUs compared with the same codes running on a CPU, showing its potential towards addressing a large class of modern problems in photonics.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6