用于折射率传感的聚合物基狭缝波导的模拟与制备

设计了在极近红外波段(890 nm)的聚合物基狭缝波导微环折射率传感器.分析了波导高度、宽度及狭缝宽度对灵敏度的影响,以找到最佳的设计标准用于折射率传感.采用电子束光刻工艺制备了硅母版模,并用独特的氟化聚合物PFPE从硅母版模上成功制备了柔性软模具.采用紫外软压印工艺制备了聚合物基狭缝波导.波导的宽度和高度以及狭缝波导的宽度分别约为510 nm、830 nm和234 nm,聚合物狭缝波导残留层的厚度约为350 nm.制备的狭缝波导具有高的高宽比并与低成本批量生产工艺相兼容.     

扇形波导谐振宽边纵缝的归一化电导

扇形波导可作为高功率微波圆柱共形波导缝隙阵天线的基本单元。分析了扇形波导中主模场分量,根据实际情况对主模场进行了合理近似。采用互易定理推导由波导主模横向场分量和缝隙场分量表示的波导场分量的前向或后向散射系数。根据波导传输线理论,将波导宽边纵缝等效为并联导纳,再根据波导边界条件得到扇形波导宽边谐振纵缝的归一化电导与波导散射系数之间的关系式。根据缝隙天线与振子天线的互补关系得到扇形波导谐振缝隙的辐射阻抗,结合波导功率平衡关系得到由波导横向场散射系数表示的缝隙辐射功率表达式,得到归一化电导的与谐振宽边纵缝的偏移位置、缝隙宽度、波导波长以及扇形波导尺寸参数之间的解析表达式。给出了算例,在波导中间区域,通过商用软件计算得到的电导与理论公式结果基本吻合。     

Wavelength demultiplexing structure based on arrayed plasmonic slot cavities

A compact wavelength demultiplexing structure based on arrayed metal-insulator-metal (MIM) slot cavities is proposed and demonstrated numerically. The structure consists of a bus waveguide perpendicularly coupled with a series of slot cavities, each of which captures SPPs at the resonance frequency from the bus waveguide and tunes the transmission wavelength by changing its geometrical parameters. A cavity theory model is used to design the operating wavelengths of the structure. Moreover, single band transmission of each channel and the adjustable transmission bandwidth can be obtained by altering the drop waveguide positions and the coupling distance. The proposed arrayed slot cavity-based structure could be utilized to develop ultracompact optical wavelength demultiplexing device for large-scale photonic integration.     

Propagation properties of a modified surface plasmonic waveguide with an arc slot

We introduce a modified surface plasmonic waveguide with an arc slot. The dependences of distribution of energy flux density, effective index, propagation length and mode area of the symmetric mode supported by this waveguide on geometrical parameters and working wavelength are analysed by using the finite-difference frequency-domain (FDFD) method. Results show that the energy flux density distributes mainly in four corners which are formed by two arcs, and the closer to the corners it is, the stronger the energy flux density will be. The effective index, the propagation length and the mode area are influenced by geometrical parameters, including the width, the thickness and the arc radius of the surface plasmonic waveguide, as well as the working wavelength. It has been shown that the surface plasmonic waveguide with an arc slot has better propagation properties than the surface plasmonic waveguide with a straight slot. This work may be helpful for applying the slot surface plasmonic waveguide to integrated photonics.     

A proposal for the generation of optical frequency comb in temperature insensitive microcavity

We numerically simulate the generation of an optical frequency comb(OFC) in a microring based on the traditional Si_3N_4 strip waveguide and a temperature compensated slot waveguide.The results show that OFCs are susceptible to temperature with strip waveguide while they can keep stable when temperature changes 10 Kin either low-Q(10~5) or highQ(10~6) microcavity with the well-designed slot waveguide,which has great superiority in practical applications where the temperature drift of the cavity due to the intense pump or surrounding change is unavoidable.     

兼具低非线性和高功率限制的狭缝波导（英文）

利用非线性效应的全矢量模型和狭缝波导的有限元模场求解法,系统地研究了狭缝波导结构和包层材料对其非线性和功率限制特性的影响.研究结果表明,狭缝波导的硅臂宽度、狭缝宽度、硅层高度和包层材料均影响其非线性和功率限制特性.对于空气包层狭缝波导,不同结构参数下的最高功率限制因子对应的非线性系数均高于20 W^-1·m^-1,而最低非线性系数6.5 W^-1·m^-1均出现在模式截止附近,泄露损耗较大,功率限制较弱,故空气包层狭缝波导无法同时实现低非线性和高功率限制;如果在狭缝波导上包覆二氧化硅,则可以同时获得低非线性和高功率限制,非线性系数可低至4.12 W^-1·m^-1,同时功率限制因子可达42%.     

宽边可调缝隙波导中缝隙谐振电导的变化规律

通过建立理论模型研究了波导窄边缝隙天线中缝隙随着波导宽边尺寸调节过程中其谐振电导的变化规律,包括缝隙的宽度、缝隙切入宽边的深度、波导壁厚等对谐振电导及谐振长度的影响。得到了较为准确的拟合公式,利用该公式计算得到的缝隙参数能够满足工程设计的需要。此外,还分析了缝隙辐射电场随波导宽边调节的变化情况。     

石英管对平行WR-430波导谐振腔电场的影响

详细讨论了石英管对平行WR-430波导谐振腔内部电场强度的影响。在没有石英管时,电场强度在每个狭缝附近发生突变,其峰值沿着一个波导逐渐减小,而沿着另外一个波导逐渐增大。存在石英管时,内部电场变弱且沿着石英管内表面无规则振荡,而且电场沿着两个波导之间的中心轴线波动。当石英管壁厚度和离上下波导的距离分别为5和2 mm时,谐振腔内部的平均电场强度达到最大,而且电场强区面积较大。当上述两者分别超过5和2 mm时,内部电场的最大值会随着石英管壁厚度和距离逐渐减弱。低气压和大气压空气等离子体在谐振腔内部被激发,其形态比较接近各自的仿真的电场强度分布。     

电磁脉冲与窄缝腔体耦合共振特性分析

 应用时域有限差分法模拟计算了电磁脉冲对窄缝和窄缝腔体的线性耦合过程。通过定义能量耦合传输系数，分析耦合能量随窄缝宽度和厚度及时间的变化关系，得出在正弦波调制的高斯脉冲源激励下，窄缝和窄缝腔体的耦合共振特性。     

Dispersion modified slot optical waveguides

Advent of slot waveguide structures had opened a new era where light can be confined in low index slot guarded by high index slabs. Already in use SOI slot waveguides (contrast ratio is 2.42) have two distinct properties over the conventional waveguides, i.e. high E-field amplitude, optical power, optical intensity in low index materials, and strong E-field confinement localized to nanometer-size low index regions. We hereby propose a low refractive index contrast ratio slot waveguide structure (ratio is 1.18) comprising of commercially available glass material. Novelty lies in showing high E-field amplitude, optical power, optical intensity, and strong E-field confinement in low index slot regions despite of lowest ever reported contrast ratio. A systematic numerical study on the higher order dispersion characteristics of the widely studied SOI-based slot structure and of our proposed low refractive index contrast slot structure is carried out. It has been demonstrated that low refractive index contrast ratio slot optical waveguide GVD properties are quite different than SOI slot optical waveguide. The less normal dispersion existing in this kind of waveguide could have an impact on their applications in various nonlinear or linear applications.     

Efficient design of silicon slot waveguide optical modulator

An optimal design of a slot waveguide is presented for realizing an ultrafast optical modulator based on a 220 nm silicon wafer technology. The recipe is to maximize the confinement and interaction between optical power supported by the waveguide and electric field applied through metallic electrodes. As height of waveguide is fixed at 220 nm, the waveguide and slot width are optimized to maximize the confinement factor of optical power. Moreover, metal electrodes tend to make the waveguide lossy, their optimal placement is calculated to reduce the optical loss and enhance the voltage per unit width in the slot. Performance of an optimally designed slot waveguide with metal electrodes as ultrafast modulator is also discussed.     

Optical field enhancement in nanoscale slot waveguides of hyperbolic metamaterials

Nanoscale slot waveguides of hyperbolic metamaterials are proposed and demonstrated for achieving large optical field enhancement. The dependence of the enhanced electric field within the air slot on waveguide mode coupling and permittivity tensors of hyperbolic metamaterials is analyzed both numerically and analytically. Optical intensity in the metamaterial slot waveguide can be more than 25 times stronger than that in a conventional silicon slot waveguide, due to tight optical mode confinement enabled by the ultrahigh refractive indices supported in hyperbolic metamaterials. The electric field enhancement effects are also verified with the realistic metal-dielectric multilayer waveguide structure.     

T-shaped dielectric slot waveguides for efficient control of birefringence and polarization independent directional coupling

A novel dielectric slot waveguide supporting strongly confined field in a T-shaped low-index slot region for both TE and TM polarizations is proposed and analyzed. Numerical simulations have demonstrated that quite different birefringent modal properties are achievable with tight optical confinement in the slot by tuning key geometrical parameters of the waveguide. Based on such a slot structure, the characteristics of directional couplers are investigated and the conditions for polarization independent coupling are also given. The presented T-shaped slot waveguide might be employed in integrated photonic systems as important building blocks enabling a number of potential applications.     

A Defect Effect to Light Transmission through Acute Bending Coupled Cavity Waveguide in a Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal

Light propagation through a coupled-defect waveguide with a 63.5° bend in a two-dimensional （2D） photonic crystal is investigated. The waveguide modes are non-degenerate monopole state and dipole defect state of a square lattice for two different branches. To increaze the transmission in the bending waveguide, we propose a method to rotate the localized state by introducing a cavity. The higher coupling efficiency and transmission shift. new type defect with a sheared square rod into coupled in the bending waveguide are obtained with proper shear     

Modification of spontaneous emission from a five-level M-type atom in coupled cavity waveguide

We study the spontaneous emission spectrum of a five-level M-type atom driven by a microwave field, in which two upper levels are coupled by the same-coupled cavity waveguide reservoir to a lower level. The spectrum behavior presents a strong non-Lorentzian shape that originates from effective quantum interference in Markovian reservoir, in which the spectral line can be significantly enhanced and eliminated by adjusting the proper parameters of the system. However, for non-Markovian reservoir, it seems that the shape of emission spectrum is quite dependent on the geometry behavior of a coupled cavity waveguide.     

Dual-band frequency selective surface with quasi-elliptic bandpass response

Based on the substrate integrated waveguide technology,we present a dual-band frequency selective surface(FSS) with a quasi-elliptic bandpass response.The characteristics of the quasi-elliptic bandpass response are realized by shunting two substrate integrated waveguide cavities of different sizes,with the same slots on both sides of the metal surfaces.Four cavities of different sizes and two slots of different sizes are used to design the novel FSS.Every bandpass response with sharp sidebands is induced by two transmission nulls that are generated by the coupling between the slot aperture resonance and the cavity resonance.The simulation results show that such dual-band FSS has the advantages of high selectivity and stable performance at different oblique incident angles.Moreover,it is easy to fabricate.     

基于超材料的吸波体设计及其波导缝隙天线应用

设计了一种基于超材料电磁特性的吸波体, 并将其应用于波导缝隙天线. 该吸波体是由两层金属及其中间的有耗介质组成, 上层金属是由刻蚀交叉缝隙的贴片形成的电谐振器, 下层金属不刻蚀, 作为整个金属地板. 通过优化结构参数, 得到了一种极化不敏感、宽入射角的超薄吸波体, 吸波率达到99.1%, 厚度只有约0.01λ. 将该吸波体应用与波导缝隙天线, 在5.48-5.7 GHz工作频段内, 天线雷达散射截面减缩都在3 dB以上, 在鼻锥方向的-25°-+25°范围的角度上, 天线雷达散射截面减缩均在5 dB以上, 雷达散射截面减缩最大超过12 dB, 而天线前向增益仅降低了0.53 dB. 实验结果与仿真结果符合得较好, 证实了该吸波体具有好的天线雷达散射截面减缩效果, 可以应用于天线目标的隐身.     

Different optical properties in different periodic slot cavity geometrical morphologies

In this paper,optical properties of two-dimensional periodic annular slot cavity arrays in hexagonal close-packing on a silica substrate are theoretically characterized by finite difference time domain(FDTD) simulation method.By simulating reflectance spectra,electric field distribution,and charge distribution,we confirm that multiple cylindrical surface plasmon resonances can be excited in annular inclined slot cavities by linearly polarized light,in which the four reflectance dips are attributed to Fabry–Perot cavity resonances in the coaxial cavity.A coaxial waveguide mode TE11 will exist in these annular cavities,and the wavelengths of these reflectance dips are effectively tailored by changing the geometrical pattern of slot cavity and the dielectric materials filled in the cavities.These resonant wavelengths are localized in annular cavities with large electric field enhancement and dissipate gradually due to metal loss.The formation of an absorption peak can be explained from the aspect of phase matching conditions.We observed that the proposed structure can be tuned over the broad spectral range of 600–4000 nm by changing the outer and inner radii of the annular gaps,gap surface topography.Meanwhile,different lengths of the cavity may cause the shift of resonance dips.Also,we study the field enhancement at different vertical locations of the slit.In addition,dielectric materials filling in the annular gaps will result in a shift of the resonance wavelengths,which make the annular cavities good candidates for refractive index sensors.The refractive index sensitivity of annular cavities can also be tuned by the geometry size and the media around the cavity.Annular cavities with novel applications can be implied as surface enhanced Raman spectra substrates,refractive index sensors,nano-lasers,and optical trappers.     

内外开槽同轴潘尼管波导传播特性

 推导了内外开槽同轴波导和外开槽圆波导的特征方程。数值模拟了内外开槽同轴波导及外开槽圆波导中2π模式的传播特性,研究了开槽深度与截止波数的关系及内外开槽潘尼管频率与各个半径之间的关系。结果表明：内外开槽同轴波导的特征值随内开槽深度的增加而增大,随外开槽深度的增加而减小;内槽半径对频率的影响很小,外槽半径起主要作用。     

Experimental Study of a Slot Antenna Excited by a TE011 Mode Coaxial Cavity

A slot antenna is developed to excite the high harmonic waveguide mode for generating large-area plasmas. This antenna consists of a TE₀₁₁ mode coaxial cavity with the axial slots positioned on equal interval on the inner wall. The waves radiated from those slots can excite the high harmonic mode in the central area. With the azimuthal symmetric wave field of the TE₀₁₁ mode, the number of the slots can be chosen to match the field pattern of the high harmonic mode. In this report, the dispersion relation of the coaxial waveguide, the coupling scheme and the mode competition of the cavity are studied. A method has been successfully developed to suppress the TE₁₂₁ mode which is the most competing mode to the TE₀₁₁ mode.