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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 11, Issue 2, Pages 167-175Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.000167
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A simple implementation of plane wave method is presented for modeling photonic crystals with arbitrary shaped `atoms'. The Fourier transform for a single `atom' is first calculated either by analytical Fourier transform or numerical FFT, then the shift property is used to obtain the Fourier transform for any arbitrary supercell consisting of a finite number of `atoms'. To ensure accurate results, generally, two iterating processes including the plane wave iteration and grid resolution iteration must converge. Analysis shows that using analytical Fourier transform when available can improve accuracy and avoid the grid resolution iteration. It converges to the accurate results quickly using a small number of plane waves. Coordinate conversion is used to treat non-orthogonal unit cell with non-regular `atom' and then is treated by standard numerical FFT. MATLAB source code for the implementation requires about less than 150 statements, and is freely available at http://www.lions.odu.edu/-si4uox002.
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