Modelling of photonic crystals

Author

Szymanski, Dominik ; Patela, Sergiusz

Author_Institution

Dept. of Microsystems Electron. & Photonics, Wroclaw Univ. of Technol.

fYear

2005

Firstpage

79

Lastpage

82

Abstract

Photonic crystals, that have an influence on wave propagation, are in a point of interest for several years. Despite of the fact that they have some similarities to semiconductors, modelling methods cannot be directly transferred since magnetic and electric fields are treated like vectors not scalars as it is in case of wave function in Schroedinger´s equation. There were created methods that can be divided into two groups. The first one is connected to calculation of dispersion properties of the photonic crystal, while the second one gives possibility to analyse wave propagation through photonic crystal. This paper shows the most commonly used methods of modelling photonic crystals: among other PWM, FDTD

Keywords

finite difference time-domain analysis; optical design techniques; optical dispersion; photonic crystals; FDTD; PWM; dispersion properties; photonic crystals; plane wave method; wave propagation; Crystalline materials; Maxwell equations; Optical materials; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Optical propagation; Photonic band gap; Photonic crystals; Pulse width modulation; Refractive index;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics and Microsystems, 2005. Proceedings of 2005 International Students and Young Scientists Workshop

Conference_Location

Dresden

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9160-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/STYSW.2005.1617802

Filename

1617802