PhotonicsRT: Wave Propagation in Multilayer Structures

The tool calculates the reflection, transmission and absorption of light passing through a lamellar structure with uniform isotropic layers.

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Archive Version 1.1.2
Published on 26 Jan 2009, unpublished on 19 Mar 2009 All versions

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Abstract

PhotonicsRT: Wave Propagation in Multilayer Structures calculates the electromagnetic field for a plane wave incident at an arbitrary incident angle on a multilayer material stack using the T-matrix approach.

User defines the following parameters:

  • Polarization of incident waves
  • Incident angle of the waves
  • Wavelength range
  • Material at the front (source) side
  • Multilayer structure (material and thickness for each layer)
  • Material at the back (shade) side

The material parameters used in this tool are permittivity and permeability. For permittivity, the same interpolation method and sources are used as PhotonicsDB: Optical Constants. For permeability, all the values are fixed to unity.

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PhotonicsRT: Wave Propagation in Multilayer Sturactures is built on a MATLAB script developed in collaboration by Drs. Uday Chettiar and Alex Kildishev.
Learn more about nanophotonics and plasmonics from Professor Shalaev's research webpage.

Credits

Development

  • S. Ishii ... Developed and tested the tool (user interface and integrated simulation engine)
  • U. Chettiar and A. Kildishev ... Developed the core simulation engine
  • M. Thoreson and X. Ni ... Developed the tutorial and performed overall testing
  • A. Kildishev ... Led the development effort

Support

  • D. Kearney and G. Klimeck ... Provided Rappture and nanoHUB.org support
  • U. Chettiar ... Performed the initial prototyping

References

Electromagnetic Theory, J. A. Stratton, McGraw-Hill Book Company (1941).
Principles of Optics - Electromagnetic theory of propagation, interference and diffraction of light, M. Born and E. Wolf, Cambridge University Press (2001).
Negative refractive index in optics of metal–dielectric composites, A.V. Kildishev, W. Cai, U. K. Chettiar, H-K. Yuan, A.K. Sarychev, V.P. Drachev, and V.M. Shalaev, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, Vol.23, No.3 423-433 (2006).
Handbook of Optical Constants of Solids, Edward D. Palik (Ed.), Academic Press (1997).
Optical Constants of the Noble Metals, P. B. Johnson and R. W. Christy, Physical Review B Vol.6 n.12 (1972).

Cite this work

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

  • Satoshi Ishii, Uday K. Chettiar, Xingjie Ni, Alexander V. Kildishev (2014), "PhotonicsRT: Wave Propagation in Multilayer Structures," https://nanohub.org/resources/photonicsrt. (DOI: 10.4231/D3833MX9P).

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  1. nanophotonics
  2. NCN Group - Photonics