AUTOMATIC CALCULATION OF BAND DIAGRAMS OF PHOTONIC CRYSTALS USING THE MULTIPLE MULTIPOLE METHOD

In the framework of photonic crystal's band structure calculations, we present a novel way - based on several advanced techniques for searching and tracing eigenvalues with the multiple multipole program - to compute these diagrams automatically, efficiently, and with a high accuracy. Finally, we validate the results for some well known test cases.

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