MIT Photonic-Bands MPB is a free program to compute the band structures (dispersion relations) and electromagnetic modes of periodic dielectric structures, and is applicable both to photonic crystals (photonic band-gap materials) and a wide range of 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. It is portable to most Unix-like systems, and also runs on parallel machines with MPI. support is forthcoming.

Current Version:   1.0 License Type:   GPL

Home Site: http://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/ Source Code Availability:   Yes, http://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/download.html Available Binary Packages: Debian Package:   No RedHat RPM Package:   No Other Packages:   No Targeted Platforms: Unix-like systems; tested e.g. on Linux, AIX, IRIX, and Tru64 Unix. Software/Hardware Requirements: BLAS, LAPACK, HDF5, GNU Guile, FFTW (all of which are freely available). See also http://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/doc/installation.html

Other Links: None Mailing Lists/USENET News Groups: http://ab-initio.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/mpb-announce mpb-announce for announcements (moderated) http://superjdj.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/mpb-discuss mpb-discuss for user discussion (unmoderated) User Comments: None See A Screen Shot? (Not Yet)

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