The comparison of the CPU time between SO-FDTD method and PLCDRC method for dispersive media

The precision and computational efficiency of the shift operator finite-difference time-domain (SO-FDTD) method are compared with those of the piecewise linear current density recursive convolution (PLCDRC) method by simulating the electromagnetic wave at different frequency propagation in homogeneous unmagnetized plasma in this paper. The results show that the two methods almost have the same precision, but the CPU time of the SO-FDTD method is less than that of the PLCDRC method, this is because the SO-FDTD method eliminates many convolution operations of the PLCDRC method.