“…In fact, much more efficient compact FDTD methods have been introduced recently, for instance: a compact FDTD method based on the alternating direction implicit (ADI) in which the time step is not limited by the CFL The simulations were performed on Pentium III computer using Matlab 7.1. criterion was presented in [20,21], a compact pseudo spectral time domain (PSTD) method in [22] and a compact FDTD method with weighted Laguerre polynomials in [23,24]. They have been applied to isotropic and anisotropic media; nevertheless, no application of these methods to anisotropic dispersive media characterized by a permittivity or permeability tensor with frequencydependent components (such as ferrites) has been reported, which make of this work the first to deal with this issue.…”