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SYPC: Photonic Crystals

SYPC 2: Symposium “Photonic Crystals” II

SYPC 2.1: Invited Talk

Wednesday, March 15, 2006, 16:30–17:00, HV

Computational Nanophotonics — •Jerome V. Moloney — Arizona Center for Mathematical Sciences and Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA

Physically and mathematically self-consistent modeling and large-scale computer simulation are emerging as powerful design tools of current and future complex nanophotonic systems. In the talk, I will motivate the need for such simulation approaches in the context of modeling micro- and nano-scale optical systems. The rapidly emerging field of nanophotonics is spurring applications in on-chip nanocircuitry, optical data storage, sensing, cancer diagnostics, etc. Solving the time-domain Maxwell’s equations in 3D offers huge computational challenges especially when the problem at hand involves widely disparate space scales. I will describe a space and time mesh refinement scheme that promises to make the simulation of large 3D nanophotonics systems with present supercomputing systems feasible. The adaptive space and time mesh refinement approach will be illustrated with applications to surface plasmon excitation of metallic spheres, coupling of quantum dot exciton features and 3D photonics crystal defect modes and the interaction of light with metamaterials constructed from nanoscale metallic and dielectric features.