圆柱形散射子二维光子晶体的态密度与局域态密度

二维光子晶体只有赝带隙,因此能否利用二维光子晶体有效控制原子自发辐射是令人感兴趣也是有实际意义的问题。其中最重要的因素是态密度和局域态密度的性质。采用平面波展开结合晶体群论的方法计算了二维正方格子光子晶体的态密度和局域态密度。其中散射子为空气圆柱,放置在均匀的电介质背景上。结果显示两个特点:第一,总态密度和局域态密度在原来二维光子晶体赝带隙处虽然已经不为零,但是取值明显低于赝带隙范围之外的值,即存在一个准光子带隙。第二,局域态密度在空气散射子界面处发生突变,空气散射子区域的局域态密度相对较大,这可由电位移矢量的连续性来理解。由于这两个特点在其他二维光子晶体中也被发现过,它们可能是普遍存在的。     

含色散介质的一维光子晶体微腔的透射谱

研究了含色散介质的一维光子晶体微腔的透射谱,对色散介质采用Lorentz振子模型,腔模的频率设置在光子晶体带隙中心。发现当吸收可以忽略时,色散效应将导致在腔模附近有很高的态密度,与此相应地在透射谱中出现一个较宽的透射带。当吸收存在时透射带中心的透射峰消失,但带尾的透射峰依然存在。     

掺杂光子晶体光纤自发辐射与掺杂激活杂质的光增益透射谱研究

借助光子晶体中二能级原子的自发辐射理论证明缺陷态的局域场存在的必然性以及局域场基本性质,为研究光子晶体光纤掺杂自发辐射的内在规律提供了理论依据。且将自发辐射理论与数值模拟相结合,在缺陷介质中掺激活杂质时,研究了光子晶体光纤的掺杂局域场特征以及受激辐射增强和透射率大于1现象与光子带隙群速度异常和掺杂层复有效折射率成负的虚部之间的内在关系。由此说明光子晶体光纤的缺陷介质中掺入激活杂质时,光子禁带中能出现品质因子非常高的杂质态,具有很大的态密度,较强的受激辐射放大。     

一维微波光子晶体带隙的仿真和实验研究

利用MPB软件和MEEP软件对一维光子晶体带隙结构及透射谱进行了仿真与实验研究.讨论了不同介质填充比和介质相对介电常数对光子晶体带隙结构的影响.仿真结果表明,当高相对介电常数介质的填充比增大时,或高相对介电常数增大时,光子晶体带隙的中心频率缓慢减小,带隙宽度呈先增大后减小的趋势,存在一极大值点.采用高相对介电常数介质薄板[钛酸钡(BaTiO<,3>)粉末混合聚二甲基硅氧烷(PDMS)胶体]和泡沫薄板周期性排列组成一维光子晶体.实验上制得了高低介质相对介电常数分别为4.5和1,填充比为1:1,晶格常数为10 mm,周期数为5的光子晶体,并测量出该光子晶体的微波透射谱.测量结果表明,在8～12 GHz的微波频段,该光子晶体的带隙中心频率为9.3 GHz,带隙宽度为500 MHz.     

调控电磁感应透明气体折射率实现可控光子带隙结构

提出了电磁感应透明(EIT)介质的一个新的相干操纵应用：控制电磁感应透明气体折射率实现可控光子带隙结构. 将一定密度的EIT原子气体充入以砷化钾为背景的椭圆孔柱中，计算表明该三角晶格排列椭圆柱光子晶体的光子带隙随外控制场而变. 通过调控自发辐射率、无辐射衰变率、控制光Rabi频率、原子数密度等外参数以及椭圆结构几何参数，在高频率区域得到了大小约0.0503ω_e(ω_e=2πc/a)的完全光子带隙.     

可变晶格常数乙醇-二氧化硅胶质光子晶体中的Raman散射

制备了乙醇 二氧化硅三维胶质光子晶体，其晶格常数随着晶体高度的变化而变化.用皮秒 脉冲激光在不同高度激发光子晶体中乙醇产生Raman信号，得到了两个结果：1）即使Raman 信号的中心频率与光子晶体的带隙中心频率一致，在其禁带方向上测得的强度也没有被抑制 到与带隙深度同样的量级；2）尽管单纯的具有Raman信号频率的入射光的透过率随着高度的 变化而剧烈变化，但在光子晶体中产生的Raman信号强度却几乎不随高度的变化而变化，即 光子晶体的赝带隙几乎没有影响在禁带方向上测得的Raman信号强度.基于“光子晶体 关键词： 光子晶体 Raman散射 赝带隙 内部光源     

双带型光子晶体中双V型四能级原子自发辐射谱中的黑线研究

研究了双带型光子晶体中双V型四能级原子自发辐射的辐射谱.双V型四能级原子同时与真空热库和双带型光子晶体热库耦合.研究发现双V型四能级原子自发辐射谱中有三种不同原因可能引起的黑线：第一种是由于量子干涉效应;第二种是由于各向同性光子晶体带边处态密度具有奇异性;第三种是真空场中的量子干涉和光子晶体禁带内态密度为零共同作用的结果.通过移动光子晶体的带边位置,在各向同性光子晶体带边引入光滑因子,以及在光子晶体中引入缺陷等对这三种黑线的影响,对上述结果进行了分析和讨论. 关键词： 双带型光子晶体 双V型四能级原子 黑线     

磁导率对二维蜂窝结构光子晶体带隙的影响

利用平面波展开法对二维六角晶格结构磁性光子晶体的带隙特性进行了研究，给出其能带结构分布图，并与非磁性介质构成的光子晶体进行了比较.结果表明，由磁性材料构成的光子晶体更易出现带隙，磁导率对带隙结构影响很大.空气背景磁性散射子情况，磁导率增加较小时，二个绝对光子带隙宽度逐渐减小，直至消失.继续增加磁导率，在较低频率范围内出现一个绝对光子带隙，占空比逐渐加大，且最佳填充系数基本保持不变.磁性背景空气散射子，类似地在较低频率范围内也出现了一个绝对光子带隙.磁性背景非磁性散射子与空气背景磁性散射子情况相似.     

具有复介电常量二维光子晶体的特性研究

采用平面波展开法,通过数值模拟研究了具有复介电常量的二维光子晶体的能带结构和光传输特性,重点讨论介电常量的虚部为负值情形时对传输特性的影响。研究表明由于光子带隙的存在有效地抑制了频率位于带隙内光的自发辐射。当在介质中掺入具有增益特性的杂质时,即使两种介质的介电常量相差很小,在靠近光子带隙边缘,出现了较强的受激辐射放大。通常在带隙的边缘处,光子晶体的群速度较小,而激光阈值正比于群速度的平方,当群速度很小时,激光阈值将大大减小。这为实现零阈值激光器提供了基础,也为制作光放大微器件提供了一个有益的理论参考。     

光子晶体中四能级系统的量子相干效应

研究了处于光子带隙材料中的四能级原子系统的电磁感应透明、自发辐射和光子开关效应，分析了其稳态与瞬态特性, 发现特殊的模密度能够导致反常的吸收、色散、自发辐射及瞬态无反转增益, 并可以通过外加调制场进行控制.详细讨论了特殊频率处模密度的变化对透明窗口和光子开关效应的影响. 关键词： 光子带隙材料 电磁感应透明 模密度 光子开关     

Theoretical study of enhancement and suppression of the fluorescent spectra of dye molecules in a photonic crystal with a pseudogap

We have investigated the analytical forms of the photonic density of states (DOS) in a photonic crystal in the interested frequency regime according to the rule of state conservation in a photonic crystal with pseudogaps, which states that, if a valley of the DOS appears in some range of frequencies, it must be compensated for by increasing over some other ranges. By using a model DOS with a state-conservative photonic pseudogap, we have also investigated the enhancement and suppression of spontaneous emission of two-level atoms with different frequency positions and widths of emission spectra in a state-conservative electromagnetic reservoir; and the DOS-induced suppression, enhancement, narrowing and redshifting or blueshifting of spontaneous emission spectra are naturally obtained.     

Spontaneous emission from a microwave-driven four-level atom in an anisotropic photonic crystal

The spontaneous emission from a microwave-driven four-level atom embedded in an anisotropic photonic crystal is studied. Due to the modified density of state(DOS) in the anisotropic photonic band gap(PBG) and the coherent control induced by the coupling fields, spontaneous emission can be significantly enhanced when the position of the spontaneous emission peak gets close to the band gap edge. As a result of the closed-loop interaction between the fields and the atom,the spontaneous emission depends on the dynamically induced Autler–Townes splitting and its position relative to the PBG.Interesting phenomena, such as spectral-line suppression, enhancement and narrowing, and fluorescence quenching, appear in the spontaneous emission spectra, which are modulated by amplitudes and phases of the coherently driven fields and the effect of PBG. This theoretical study can provide us with more efficient methods to manipulate the atomic spontaneous emission.     

Modification of the spontaneous emission of quantum dots near the surface of a three-dimensional colloidal photonic crystal

This paper demonstrates experimentally and numerically that a significant modification of spontaneous emission rate can be achieved near the surface of a three-dimensional photonic crystal.In experiments,semiconductor core-shell quantum dots are intentionally confined in a thin polymer film on which a three-dimensional colloidal photonic crystal is fabricated.The spontaneous emission rate of quantum dots is characterised by conventional and time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) measurements.The modification of the spontaneous emission rate,which is reflected in the change of spectral shape and PL lifetime,is clearly observed.While an obvious increase in the PL lifetime is found at most wavelengths in the band gap,a significant reduction in the PL lifetime by one order of magnitude is observed at the short-wavelength band edge.Numerical simulation reveals a periodic modulation of spontaneous emission rate with decreasing modulation strength when an emitter is moved away from the surface of the photonic crystal.It is supported by the fact that the modification of spontaneous emission rate is not pronounced for quantum dots distributed in a thick polymer film where both enhancement and suppression are present simultaneously.This finding provides a simple and effective way for improving the performance of light emitting devices.     

Modified spontaneous emission of CdTe quantum dots inside a photonic crystal

The angular dependence of the spontaneous emission of CdTe quantum dots (QDs) inside a photonic crystal with a pseudogap is reported. The sensitive dependences of the radiative lifetime and the photoluminescence spectrum of CdTe QDs on the observation angle demonstrate the effect of the photonic bandgap on the spontaneous emission of the QDs.     

用不同密度分布的发光分子探测光子晶体的全态密度

单一原子（分子）的自发辐射衰变的动力学性质强烈地依赖于其在光子晶体中的位置及其辐射偶极矩与所处位置场的相对方向.测量单一原子（分子）的自发辐射衰变特性只能反映光子晶体的局域态密度特征，而不能反映光子晶体的全态密度特征.理论上研究发现，通过引入含不同密度分布的发光分子可以探测到光子晶体的全态密度的部分细节甚至全部信息.按来源首次将全态密度分为两个部分，证明了特定的发光分子分布可以完善地反映其中的一部分或者全部，这为解释、设计加速或抑制原子（分子）自发辐射的实验提供了有益的指导. 关键词： 光子晶体 自发辐射 态密度 密度分布     

Controlling spontaneous emission with the local density of states of honeycomb photonic crystals

We calculated the local density of state for various positions in a photonic crystal of honeycomb lattice to study how the spontaneous emission rate of a radiating dipole is altered in the presence of the photonic crystal. The local density of states is found to be position-sensitive and its value can be enhanced or depressed relative to the density of states, depending on the location of the dipole. Our study shows that the density of states tends to underestimate the effect of a photonic crystal on the prohibition of light propagation, while on the contrary tends to overestimate the effect on the enhancement of light emission. The calculations also indicate that it is possible to tailor the spontaneous emission of an active medium by careful selecting its location in the photonic crystal. The results are helpful in determining the insertion location of the active medium and in evaluating the efficiency of active photonic crystal devices such as light-emitting diodes or lasers.     

Decay of a quantum dot in two-dimensional metallic photonic crystals

In this paper we have developed a theory for the decay of a quantum dot doped in a two-dimensional metallic photonic crystal consisting of two different metallic pillars in an air background medium. This crystal structure forms a full two-dimensional photonic band gap when the appropriate pillar sizes are chosen. The advantage of using two metals is that one can easily control the density of states and optical properties of these photonic crystals by changing the plasma energies of two metals rather than one. Using the Schrödinger equation method and the photonic density of states, we calculated the linewidth broadening and the spectral function of radiation due to spontaneous emission for two-level quantum dots doped in the system. Our results show that by changing the plasma energies one can control spontaneous emission of quantum dots doped in the metallic photonic crystal.     

Spectral narrowing and lasing threshold in self-assembled active photonic crystal

Laser-induced emission from rhodamine-B dye embedded in pseudo band gap opaline photonic crystals is discussed. The photonic crystals are fabricated using rhodamine-B doped polystyrene colloids and show 65% reflectance at the stop band centered at 604 nm. The reflectance of the crystal is increased to 74% by coating with a thin layer of gold. Both spontaneous and stimulated emissions of the dye are observed in the photonic stop band environment by exciting the crystal with the second harmonic (532 nm) of a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. The thin layer of gold functioned as a high reflecting end mirror to the dye-doped cavity when the crystal is pumped from the substrate side. Angle-dependent suppression at the stop band wavelength is observed in the spontaneous emission of the dye. Spectrally narrow stimulated emission and lasing is achieved in the gold coated dyed PhC at a threshold pump power of 60 mW in a selective direction of 22° from the direction of excitation. By studying emission from several photonic crystals with different number of layers, it is concluded that a sharp threshold for lasing is not observed in uncoated photonic crystals when they contained fewer than 30 ordered layers and lesser than 70% reflectance.     

Direct observation of non-Markovian radiation dynamics in 3D bulk photonic crystals

Since the very first proposition of photonic crystals, their influence on the dynamics of spontaneous emission has been of great interest. The radiation dynamics is described by an integration kernel which--in a spectral representation--comprises two equally important contributions: the Lamb shift and the radiative contribution to the linewidth. The latter is connected to the density of states via Fermi's golden rule. To our knowledge, we present the first spatially resolved measurement of the complete radiation dynamics in a photonic crystal and of its local density of states over a wide spectral range. To this end we study a single magnetic dipole situated in a photonic crystal with a band gap at microwave frequencies and find non-Markovian behavior in excellent agreement with ab initio calculations.     

Physics and applications of photonic crystals

In this article, we investigate how the photonic band gaps and the variety of band dispersions of photonic crystals can be utilized for various applications and how they further give rise to completely novel optical phenomena. The enhancement of spontaneous emission through coupled cavity waveguides in a one-dimensional silicon nitride photonic microcrystal is investigated. We then present the highly directive radiation from sources embedded in two-dimensional photonic crystals. The manifestation of novel and intriguing optical properties of photonic crystals are exemplified experimentally by the negative refraction and the focusing of electromagnetic waves through a photonic crystal slab with subwavelength resolution.