  MPC (Magneto-Photonic Crystal) Optimisation is a feature-rich Windows
software application designed to enable researchers to analyze the optical and
magneto-optical spectral properties of multilayers containing gyrotropic
constituents. A set of computational algorithms aimed at enabling the design
optimization and optical or magneto-optical (MO) spectral analysis of 1D
magnetic photonic crystals (MPC) is reported, together with its Windows
software implementation. Relevant material property datasets (e.g., the optical
spectra of refractive index, absorption, and gyration) of several important
optical and MO materials are included, enabling easy reproduction of the
previously published results from the field of MPC-based Faraday rotator
development, and an effective demonstration-quality introduction of future
users to the multiple features of this package. We also report on the methods
and algorithms used to obtain the absorption coefficient spectral dispersion
datasets for new materials, for which the film thickness, transmission
spectrum, and refractive index dispersion function are known.
