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Fabrication And Characterization Of Photonic Crystal Slow Light Waveguides And Cavities
Published on: November 30, 2012
Accurate simulation of two-dimensional optical microcavities with uniquely solvable boundary integral equations and
Svetlana V Boriskina1, Phillip Sewell, Trevor M Benson
1George Green Institute for Electromagnetics Research, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK. eezsb@gwmail.nottingham.ac.uk
Abstract:
A fast and accurate method is developed to compute the natural frequencies and scattering characteristics of arbitrary-shape two-dimensional dielectric resonators. The problem is formulated in terms of a uniquely solvable set of second-kind boundary integral equations and discretized by the Galerkin method with angular exponents as global test and trial functions. The log-singular term is extracted from one of the kernels, and closed-form expressions are derived for the main parts of all the integral operators. The resulting discrete scheme has a very high convergence rate. The method is used in the simulation of several optical microcavities for modern dense wavelength-division-multiplexed systems.

