On an application of a 2D transparent-influx boundary condition for photonic crystals

We present a hybrid analytic-numeric method to calculate the transmission and reflection of light that is fluxed into a bounded complicated optical structure surrounded by air. The solution is obtained by numerically calculations inside a square containing the structure and by analytical calculations outside the square. For solving the 2D Helmholtz equation we formulate Transparent-Influx Boundary Conditions (TIBC’s) on the boundaries of the square; these are incorporated into a variational formulation of the Helmholtz equation to obtain a FEM-implementation for the interior calculations. We illustrate the method for a two-dimensional finite photonic crystal formed by dielectric rods with a defect, and study the response of the structure for given influx