I a trying to find out effective refractive index of photonic crystal fiber with the help of Matlab software. There are methods like FDTD, FEM, Beam propagation etc. Has anyone calculated the above.
I have worked with Comsol Multiphysics, where effective index calculation is quite easy. You can tryout using comsol,Module Electromagnetics waves, frequency domain, modal analysis. Most of the parameters like beta, k, neff can be obtained directly.