Band structure calculation of photonic crystals with frequency-dependent permittivities

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2021

Department

Department of Mathematical Sciences

Abstract

We propose a new method for band structure calculation of photonic crystals. It can treat arbitrarily frequency-dependent, lossy or lossless materials. The band structure problem is first formulated as the eigenvalue problem of an operator function. Finite elements are then used for discretization. Finally, the spectral indicator method is employed to compute the eigenvalues. Numerical examples in both TE and TM cases are presented to show the effectiveness. There exist very few examples in literature for the TM case, and the examples in this paper can serve as benchmarks.

Publication Title

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

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