n The Correct Use Of Plane-Wave Discretization In Photonic-Structure Simulation: Grating Diffraction Example

M. Auslender and S. Hava
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Electrical and
Computer
Engineering, POB 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel

In simulations of photonic crystals the use of Rayleigh-Fourier (plane-wave) basis is widely accepted.Incorrect discretization of piece-vice dielectric permittivity using this basis may lead to lacking the convergence upon increase of the truncation order. In this communication we review the correct rules of the plane-wave discretization for diffraction by 1D gratings in TM polarization and in conical case, which were found in numerical experiments [1,2] and mathematically justified [3]. The idea behind is to preserve the continuity of the relevant fields in real space.


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G. Granet and B. Guizal, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13, 1019 (1996).

[2] M. Auslender and S. Hava, Opt. Lett. 21, 1765 (1996).

[3] L. Li, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13, 1870 (1996)