PPPL-3744 is available in <a href="PPPL-3744.pdf">pdf</a> format (280 KB).

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<b>Simulating Photons and Plasmons in a Three-dimensional Lattice</b>
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<b>Authors:</b> A. Pletzer and G. Shvets
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<b>Date of PPPL Report:</b> September 2002
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<b>Presented at: </b>the Electrical Transport and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media (ETOPIM) Conference in Snowbird, Utah, July 15-19, 2002.</p>


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Three-dimensional metallic photonic structures are studied using a newly developed mixed finite element-finite difference (FE-FD) code, Curly3d. The code solves the vector Helmholtz equation as an eigenvalue problem in the unit cell of a triply periodic lattice composed of conductors and/or dielectrics. The mixed FE-FD discretization scheme ensures rapid numerical convergence of the eigenvalue and allows the code to run at low resolution. Plasmon and photonic band structure calculations are presented.



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