TY - JOUR T1 - An Adaptive Finite Element Method with a Modified Perfectly Matched Layer Formulation for Diffraction Gratings JO - Communications in Computational Physics VL - 2 SP - 290 EP - 318 PY - 2009 DA - 2009/06 SN - 6 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/7681.html KW - AB -

For numerical simulation of one-dimensional diffraction gratings both in TE and TM polarization, an enhanced adaptive finite element method is proposed in this paper. A modified perfectly matched layer (PML) formulation is proposed for the truncation of the unbounded domain, which results in a homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition and the corresponding error estimate is greatly simplified. The a posteriori error estimates for the adaptive finite element method are provided. Moreover, a lower bound is obtained to demonstrate that the error estimates obtained are sharp.