The Optical Path Method for the Problem of Oblique Incidence of a Plane Electromagnetic Wave on a Plane-Parallel Scatterer

A number of actual problems of integrated photonics are reduced to an oblique incidence of radiation on a plane-parallel scatterer. For such problems, an approximate method of integrating the Maxwell equations along the beam propagation direction is proposed. As a result, the original two-dimensional problem is reduced to a one-dimensional one, and recently proposed one-dimensional bicompact schemes are used to solve it. This approach provides a significant reduction of computational costs compared to traditional two-dimensional methods such as finite differences and finite elements. To verify the proposed method, calculations of test and applied problems with known exact reflection spectra are carried out. © 2023 by the authors.