Visualization of a Nonlinear Interface Simulation

长期以来，非线性光学界面问题一直是人们非常关注的问题。利用解析、数值和实验技术，试图理解光束以小掠角入射到两个不同的非线性介质界面上的行为。到目前为止，最详细的数值研究都存在着本质上只是二维的缺陷，因此不能准确地模拟三维实验结果。最近，PI收到了国家超级计算应用中心同行审查委员会授予的超级计算机时间来开发这样的三维模型。现向国家科学基金会提交这项建议，以获得购买图形显示设备的资金，以协助开发显示上述数值模拟结果的可视化技术。

The nonlinear optical interface problem has been of great current interest for a long time. Analytic, numerical and experimental techniques have been used in attempting to understand the behavior of an optical beam incident at small glancing angle on the interface between two dissimilar nonlinear dielectrics. The most detailed numerical studies to date have suffered from the defect of being only two- dimensional in nature, and so cannot model accurately the three- dimensional experimental results. Recently, the PI received a grant of Supercomputer time from the Peer Review Board of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications to develop such a three dimensional model. This proposal is submitted to NSF to obtain funds for the purchase of a graphic display device to aid in the development of visualization techniques for displaying results of the aforementioned numerical simulation.