Green's function for photonic crystal slabs.

Green's tensors for photonic crystal (PC) slabs are numerically solved by the coupled-dipole approximation (CDA) technique. The obtained components of Green's tensors satisfy discontinuous or continuous conditions at interfaces of scatterers. This shows that the CDA technique is very applicable to studying the properties of PC slabs. Green's tensors exhibit obviously periodic oscillation with the increase of the number of scatterers; furthermore, the effect of each scatterer on Green's tensors displays a localization feature in the sample containing one row of scatterers; on the contrary, this localized effect disappears in the sample consisting of multiple rows of scatterers.