INDEX
Airy pattern 21
Antenna 1, 39, 40, 45, 51, 52, 63, 65
BASICSTEP 16, 18, 24, 54, 62 Boundary 7, 15, 19, 29, 31, 
54
C++ 7, 43
Conductor 2, 
83
Curve 
Debug 10, 52
Decimate 22
Dielectric 
57, 
Divergence 34, 35, 81
Domain 3, 7, 15, 16, 
DXF File (Autocad Drawing Exchange Format) 1, 23, 62
Fan 18, 19, 51, 54, 55, 85
(FDTD) method 2, 3, 6, 7, 34, 35, 48, 49, 81, 82, 86
EM_DENORMAL 81
EM_UNDERFLOW 81
EM_ZERODIVIDE 81 
Gaussian beam 21, 35, 38, 41, 42, 48
Ghosh, Gorachand 48
Grating 1, 18, 19, 85 Guess 28, 29, 37, 56, 75 Hagness, Susan 49 Hello, World 81 Heuristics 33 Hollowbox 19, 33, 54, 83 Illumination 1, 20, 31, 32, 34, 35,
42, 82, 84, 85
Infinity 81
Input file 1, 3, 6, 7, 10, 13, 62, 63, 65, 75
Logarithmic 8, 28, 65 Loopback interface 83 Mathematical functions 43
MATLAB 7
Merit function 7, 29, 37, 51, 85 Metal 
Mode matching 2, 8, 38
Modefile 21, 25, 36, 41, 51, 55, 81, 85
Motivation 1 Movie 26 Movie3d 8, 26
Mu law (CCITT 
method 3, 37, 56, 85
Normal conductor 2, 17, 51 Not A Number (NaN) 81 Numerical Recipes 3, 4 Optimization 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 19,
22, 28, 29, 37, 39, 51, 52, 63, 65, 82
Palette 8, 27, 28, 
Palik, E. M. 48
Parameter stepping 84, 85 Penalty function 4, 7, 8, 22, 29,
30, 37, 56
16, 19, 20, 33, 34, 36, 
88