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MIT Photonic Bands - Computes photonic band structures

MIT Photonic Bands (MPB) computes the band structures (dispersion relations) and electromagnetic modes of periodic dielectric structures, and is applicable both to photonic crystals (photonic band-gap materials) and other optical problems. Its features include: fully-vectorial, 3D computations; a flexible user-interface based upon the GNU Guile scripting language; output in HDF format; and iterative, targeted eigensolver methods to address very large problems by solving for only a few states near a specified frequency.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/
Source tarballhttp://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/mpb-1.4.2.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/download.html
Version 1.4.2 (stable) released on 2003-03-03
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User manual available from http://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/doc/; user tutorial available from http://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/doc/user-tutorial.html and from http://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/doc/analysis-tutorial.html; developer's guide available from http://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/doc/developer.html
Support contacts

Announce List<mpb-announce@ab-initio.mit.edu> http://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/download.html
Help List<mpb-discuss@ab-initio.mit.edu> http://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/download.html
Help Newsgmane.comp.science.photonic-bands
Bug List<mpb-discuss@ab-initio.mit.edu> http://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/download.html
SupportConsulting available from Prof. John D. Joannopoulos at 1-617-253-4806 (phone) or 1-617-253-2563 (fax).

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Contributors
Sponsors
  • National Science Foundation, U.S. Army Research Office, National Defense Science

Related information

Interfacescommand line
Source languagesC
Supported languagesGuile
Use requirementslibctl 2.2 or later
Weak prerequisitesGuile, HDF (see http://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/hdf.html), LAPACK, BLAS, FFTW

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-11
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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