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HL: Fachverband Halbleiterphysik
HL 57: Photonic Crystals II
HL 57.3: Talk
Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 12:30–12:45, EW 202
(contribution withdrawn) Advances of Modal Methods in the Simulation of Photonic Structures and Devices — •Thomas Zebrowski1, Jens Küchenmeister1, Michael Walz1, and Kurt Busch2 — 1Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany — 2Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Physik, AG Theoretische Optik, Newtonstr. 15, 12489 Berlin, and Max-Born-Institut, Max-Born-Str. 2A, 12489 Berlin, Germany
Modal methods feature an elegant and efficient way for solving photonic scattering problems with the help of the s-matrix algorithm. In this contribution, we will first give an overview over our current developments in the traditionally used Fourier modal method and present recent results for periodic as well as aperiodic structures like woodpile photonic crystals and liquid crystal based fiber gratings. However, for some applications it seems reasonable to replace the plane wave basis with a localized polynomial basis. This leads us to the B-spline modal method whose basic principles and particularities will be introduced in the second part.