MIT Photonic Bands

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.

Last updated 3 Mar, 2005


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Requirements
  • libctl 2.2 or later (Use Requirement)
  • Guile (Weak Prerequisite)
  • HDF (see http://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/hdf.html) (Weak Prerequisite)
  • LAPACK (Weak Prerequisite)
  • BLAS (Weak Prerequisite)
  • FFTW (Weak Prerequisite)

Versions

1.4.2

1.4.2 stable released 2003-03-03

User Community and Support

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

General Resources
Announcement Resources
Support Resources
  • E-mail
  • Newsgroup
  • Consulting available from Prof. John D. Joannopoulos at 1-617-253-4806 (phone) or 1-617-253-2563 (fax).

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Please send comments on these web pages to bug-directory@fsf.org, send other questions to info@fsf.org.

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