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May 9, 2024 at 12:03 am
Ruzan Sokhoyan
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Thank you. I have follow-up questions. 

  1. Is it possible to estimate how long the simulation will run in RCWA? FDTD gives such an estimation at the beginning of the simulation. What about RCWA?
  2. Is it theoretically possible that the RCWA and FDTD simulations never converge in certain situations?
  3. I observe that the RCWA simulation crushes for k values above 1800. What are the highest k values you have ever used in your simulations? Have you also observed the "crushing behavior"?

Thank you!