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Benchmarking five numerical simulation techniques for computing resonance wavelengths and quality factors in photonic crystal membrane line defect cavities

Computational Physics 2018-04-23 v2 Optics

Abstract

We present numerical studies of two photonic crystal membrane microcavities, a short line-defect cavity with relatively low quality (QQ) factor and a longer cavity with high QQ. We use five state-of-the-art numerical simulation techniques to compute the cavity QQ factor and the resonance wavelength λ\lambda for the fundamental cavity mode in both structures. For each method, the relevant computational parameters are systematically varied to estimate the computational uncertainty. We show that some methods are more suitable than others for treating these challenging geometries.

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@article{arxiv.1710.02215,
  title  = {Benchmarking five numerical simulation techniques for computing resonance wavelengths and quality factors in photonic crystal membrane line defect cavities},
  author = {Jakob Rosenkrantz de Lasson and Lars Hagedorn Frandsen and Philipp Gutsche and Sven Burger and Oleksiy S. Kim and Olav Breinbjerg and Aliaksandra Ivinskaya and Fengwen Wang and Ole Sigmund and Teppo Häyrynen and Andrei V. Lavrinenko and Jesper Mørk and Niels Gregersen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.02215},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Revised and final version for publication. 28 pages, 10 figures, 7 tables