Abstract
We present a simple and easy-to-implement Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)-accelerated routine to numerically simulate the propagation of ultrashort and intense laser pulses as they interact with a medium. The routine is based on the solution of Maxwell’s wave equation in the frequency domain with an extended Crank-Nicolson algorithm implemented in the Nvidia CUDA C++ programming language. The main advantages of our method are its significant speed-up factor and its ease of implementation, requiring only basic knowledge of CUDA and C++. In this article, we review the strong-field wave equations to be solved and their discretization and demonstrate how to implement a numerical solver for them on an Nvidia GPU. We show the results of the simulation of a near-infrared laser pulse propagating through a partially ionized atomic gas and discuss the performance of our GPU-accelerated scheme. Compared to a naïve central processing unit implementation of the same routine, our GPU-accelerated version is up to 198 times faster in standard regimes.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 121401 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-8 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Review of Scientific Instruments |
Volume | 95 |
Issue number | 12 |
Early online date | 4 Dec 2024 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2024 |
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