MIT Photonic Bands

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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 page	http://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/
Source tarball	http://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/mpb-1.4.2.tar.gz
Source information	http://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 News	gmane.comp.science.photonic-bands
Bug List	<mpb-discuss@ab-initio.mit.edu> http://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/download.html
Support	Consulting available from Prof. John D. Joannopoulos at 1-617-253-4806 (phone) or 1-617-253-2563 (fax).

Project contacts

Maintainers	Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
Developers	Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
Contributors	See for a comlete list
Sponsors	National Science Foundation, U.S. Army Research Office, National Defense Science

Related information

Interfaces	command line
Source languages	C
Supported languages	Guile
Use requirements	libctl 2.2 or later
Weak prerequisites	Guile, HDF (see http://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/hdf.html), LAPACK, BLAS, FFTW

Entry information

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

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