title: Method of calculating local dispersion in arbitrary photonic crystal waveguides.
abstract: We introduce a novel method to calculate the local dispersion relation in photonic crystal waveguides, based on the finite-difference time-domain simulation and filter diagonalization method (FDM). In comparison with the spatial Fourier transform method (SFT), the highly local dispersion calculations based on FDM are considerably superior and pronounced. For the first time to our knowledge, the presented numerical technique allows comparing the dispersion in straight and bent waveguides.
authors.affiliation: Christian Doppler Labor, Institut für Halbleiter und Festkörperphysik, Universität Linz, A-4040 Linz, Austria.
authors.forename: Babak
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dastmalchi
authors.forename: Abbas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mohtashami
authors.forename: Kurt
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hingerl
authors.forename: Javad
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zarbakhsh