I like Meep. So I'm putting this question out with some embarassment and trepidation, but one of my colleagues has strongly requested that I look into buying a commercial FDTD package that will do what Meep does, but with a gui interface. We are primarily interested in finite 1-d and 2-d nonlinear (both the real and imaginary parts) photonic crystals with interesting dispersive properties. Does anyone in this discussion group have experience with these packages that you are willing to share on or off list? My starting point is the list that appears at the end of the FDTD Wikipedia article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-difference_time-domain_method
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