Re: Computing radiation losses with MPB

"Steven G. Johnson" <[email protected]>
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On May 5, 2009, at 6:03 AM, Paolo Bardella wrote:
> I am trying to simulate a second-order laterally-coupled Bragg grating
> (http://www.comsol.com/papers/4983/).
> Do you think it is possible to use MPB to compute the coupling
> coefficient and the radiation losses of such a structure?

MPB computes eigenmodes, and only eigenmodes.  If you want a  
scattering calculation, you need a different program, e.g. our Meep  
time-domain software (ab-initio.mit.edu/meep).

Steven
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