二维光子晶体耦合腔阵列的慢波效应研究

设计了一种六角晶格二维光子晶体耦合腔阵列，平面波展开法计算能带表明，处于禁带中的耦合缺陷腔模的色散曲线在光子晶体平面内所有k矢量方向更加平坦.模拟了横电波沿ΓK方向的透射谱.与光子晶体单缺陷腔相比，耦合腔阵列结构的缺陷腔模透射率提高三个量级以上，而群速度降低一个量级，得到0.007c的结果.该慢波效应在构造微型可调谐光延迟器和低阈值光子晶体激光器等方面具有潜在的应用前景. 关键词： 光子晶体 耦合腔阵列 慢波 透射率     

缺陷对二维四方光子晶体透射光谱的影响

利用转移矩阵法研究了二维四方光子晶体中缺陷对透射光谱的影响。结果表明缺陷对TE波的影响比对TM波的影响明显,缺陷层填充比对禁带宽度影响很大,TE波禁带在填充比r/a=0.33时最宽,第一禁带的最低频率随着填充比的增加向低频移动。     

光子晶体定向耦合三波长功分器

以二维三角晶格光子晶体为研究对象,在该光子晶体中引入两行以一行耦合介质柱为间距的平行单模线缺陷波导.通过分析和研究光子晶体波导耦合结构的耦合和解耦合特性,发现在不同频率下耦合波导的耦合长度不同.利用平面波展开法和定向耦合原理计算了在不同入射光频率下,缺陷波导间耦合波导的耦合长度,设计了一种新型超微光子晶体波导耦合型三波长功分器,实现了归一化频率分别为0.369、0.394、0.435的光波的分束效果.采用时域有限差分法验证了该功分器具有很好的功率分配效果.本文结果有助于光子晶体新型滤波器、定向耦合器、波分复用器、偏振光分束器以及光开关等光子器件的研究.     

基于光子晶体波导定向耦合的光子晶体分/合频器

在完整二维光子晶体中引入线缺陷后,就形成了光子晶体波导。将时域有限差分法(FDTD)和平面波法作为光子晶体理论研究的工具。研究结果表明,光子晶体波导之间的耦合遵循普通介质波导耦合的一般规律,有定向耦合的功能;将两个具有不同耦合长度的光子晶体波导定向耦合器顺序集成在一起,可以组成一个三波长的光子晶体分/合频器。     

TM模式下二维非磁化等离子体光子晶体的禁带调制特性分析

采用时域有限差分法(FDTD)中的分段线性电流密度卷积(PLCDRC)算法研究了TM波入射时二维非磁化等离子体光子晶体的禁带特性.从频域角度分析得到微分高斯脉冲的透射系数,并讨论该光子晶体的介质圆柱的介电常数、晶格常数、介质圆柱半径,周期常数和等离子体参数对其禁带特性的影响.结果表明,增加周期常数和等离子体碰撞频率不会改变禁带宽度,增加介质圆柱的相对介电常数和等离子体频率可以展宽禁带的宽度. 当填充率一定时,减小介质圆柱的半径和晶格常数可以实现禁带的拓展. 关键词： 等离子体 光子晶体 禁带 PLCDRC算法     

用级联缓变结构实现光子晶体波导和传统波导的耦合

为了提高光子晶体波导与传统介质波导的耦合效率,设计了级联缓变结构.先将传统介质波导中的光耦合进尺寸相当的光子晶体W5波导中,然后W5波导中的光被耦合进尺寸较小些的W3波导中,最后光被耦合进尺寸最小的W1波导.各级波导之间由半径逐渐增大的空气孔连接,空气孔半径逐渐变化相当于波导有效折射率在变化,所以各级波导可以看作是被折射率缓变结构连接起来.由于折射率的缓变,使得光从前一级波导耦合进相邻的后一级波导时反射很小,从而能有效地提高耦合效率.数值计算表明,在光子晶体禁带范围内,除了波导有限长度和波导微小禁带造成的微小不通带外,耦合系数一般能达80%左右,最高可达到95%.     

一维和二维系统中电子禁带与光子禁带的数学等价特性

论证了在不针对特殊的结构和未做任何近似的情况下,一维和二维系统中的电子的Schrdinger方程和沿垂直方向传播的S极化光子的Maxwell方程具有完全相同的数学形式,即二者在数学上是完全等价的,这自然解释了到目前为止发现的存在于电子晶体的电子禁带和光子晶体的光子禁带之间的许多相似性.这种等价性还表明,在电子晶体中出现的许多现象可以推广到光子晶体中;研究电子晶体的理论和方法也可以应用于光子晶体的研究中去.     

二维光子晶体能带结构温度特性研究

采用有限元法对二维光子晶体的能带特性进行了分析.当光子晶体所受的温度发生变化时,由于构成二维光子晶体介质的热光效应,引起介质的折射率变化,介质的热膨胀效应引起介质厚度发生变化,改变了光子晶体的晶格周期,使得光子晶体的能带结构发生变化.分析了温度变化对二维光子晶体的第一禁带和第二禁带结构特性的影响,各禁带的起始波长、截止...     

光子晶体异质结的位相和应用

研究了由不同周期结构的光子晶体组成的异质结和含耦合杂质的光子晶体异质结的位相. 发现光子晶体异质结使光子晶体杂质模的反射率接近1，但反射相移不随反射率的改变而改变，反射相移只由前边的子光子晶体的禁带、通带或耦合杂质模中的子峰决定. 即异质结的前边的子光子晶体的耦合杂质模中的每一子峰、每一通带或禁带对应的反射相移为2π. 对多杂质耦合的结构，反射相移很灵敏，可用于制作高灵敏光子器件. 以全光位相与非门为例描述全光位相逻辑门的方案和可行性. 另外，这些特性对研究位相有关的新物理过程和现象有意义. 关键词： 光子晶体 位相 异质结 耦合杂质     

二维光子晶体耦合腔阵列的慢波效应研究

设计了一种六角晶格二维光子晶体耦合腔阵列，平面波展开法计算能带表明，处于禁带中的耦合缺陷腔模的色散曲线在光子晶体平面内所有k矢量方向更加平坦.模拟了横电波沿ΓK方向的透射谱.与光子晶体单缺陷腔相比，耦合腔阵列结构的缺陷腔模透射率提高三个量级以上，而群速度降低一个量级，得到0.007c的结果.该慢波效应在构造微型可调谐光延迟器和低阈值光子晶体激光器等方面具有潜在的应用前景.     

Multichannel W3 Y-branch filter in a two dimensional triangular-lattice photonic crystal slab

We demonstrate the design, fabrication and characterization of a highly efficient multichannel W3 Y-branch filter in a two dimensional triangular-lattice photonic crystal slab. The coupling properties between high-order waveguide modes and fundamental resonant modes are investigated. By finely adjusting the size of resonant cavities, four higher-order mode channels with different output wavelengths are experimentally realized, which is in agreement with the theoretical simulations. The results show that this kind of filter may be useful in optical integrated circuits with high coupling and transmission efficiency.     

On‐demand photonic crystal resonators

Recent progress in the field of re‐locatable photonic crystal resonators is discussed with a particular emphasis on the flexible scheme that employs highly‐curved microfiber. In this scheme a spectrally‐tunable high‐quality‐factor resonator can be defined repeatedly by physically moving a curved microfiber to a new position. When a curved microfiber is placed on top of a photonic crystal waveguide (or photonic crystal), a photonic well is newly created in the vicinity of the contact point. Inside of this photonic well, high‐quality‐factor resonant modes are generated at frequencies below the cutoff edge of the guided mode. The tapered microfiber is an integral part of a single mode optical fiber and efficient out‐coupling is naturally obtained. The sub‐nanometer spectral tuning capability that is available by changing the curvature of the microfiber is also an important characteristic and discussed. This spectrally‐ and spatially‐reconfigurable photonic crystal resonator is expected to be a potential platform for photonic crystal based single photon sources, which enables accurate spatial overlap and spectral overlap with a single quantum dot, together with straightforward photon out‐coupling to the fiber with high efficiency.     

Optical interleaver based on directional coupler in a 2D photonic crystal slab with triangular lattice of air holes

A small-size optical interleaver based on directional coupler in a 2D photonic crystal slab with triangular lattice of air holes is designed and theoretically simulated using plane wave expansion and finite-difference time-domain method. The interleaver is formed by two parallel and identical photonic crystal slab waveguides which are separated by three rows of air holes. The coupling region is designed below the light line to avoid vertical radiation. The simulated results show that the coupling coefficient is increased and the final length of the interleaver is decreased by enlarging the radius of the middle row of air holes. The transmission properties are analyzed after the interleaver’s structure is optimized, and around 100 GHz channel spacing can be got when the length of the interleaver is chosen as 40.5 μm.     

Diffractionless optical networking in an inverse opal photonic band gap micro-chip

We present a design for a photonic crystal (PC) all-optical micro-chip based on a three-dimensional (3D) inverse opal heterostructure intercalated with a two-dimensional (2D) triangular lattice photonic crystal slab. Within the 2D micro-chip layer, we demonstrate single-mode (diffractionless) waveguiding of light in air, throughout a bandwidth of more than 70 nm near 1.55 μm. This suggests that inverse opal photonic band gap (PBG) materials can facilitate on-chip optical networking functions over the telecommunication frequency band used in current-day optical fibers.     

A 2D rods-in-air square-lattice photonic crystal optical switch

A 2D photonic crystal optical switch is proposed based on a rods-in-air square-lattice photonic crystal by removing two cross-lines of rods from a 2D square-lattice photonic crystal to form four optical channels. The simulation results show that, when inserting a single rod along the diagonal line of the intersection area of two removed cross-lines of rods, the position of the single inserted rod determines how much incident energy goes into different channels. In the case of transverse magnetic (TM) Gaussian point source, time domain simulation shows that up to 87.3% of the incident energy can be switched into a channel, which is vertical to the source channel. Because there are two diagonal lines in the intersection area of two removed cross-lines of rods, the optical switch feature is achieved by shifting the inserted rod between two diagonal lines. It is also found that the magnitude of the reflected wave in the source channel varies greatly with spatial position of the single inserted rod. The larger the magnitude of the reflected wave in the source channel, the less the energy that goes into the switched channel. The time delay between the incident wave and the reflected wave in the source channel is also related to the position of the single inserted rod. In addition, the large time delay between the incident wave and the reflected wave in the source channel shows that the reflected wave encounters many reflections with the walls of the source channel, instead of waves reflected back from the single inserted rod.     

Design of photonic crystal power couplers via gratinglike surfaces

This work deals with the inverse design in the field of photonic crystal based devices. We use the finite-difference time-domain method in conjunction with a genetic algorithm to design a power coupler between two photonic crystal waveguides. By optimizing the structure of gratinglike surfaces added near the photonic crystal waveguides, we have obtained several simple power couplers considering different coupling lengths. These couplers have high coupling efficiency as well as high power intensity in the propagation direction.     

Slow light transmission in a photonic crystal power splitter with parallel outputs

In this paper, we investigate coupling of light to slow modes in a photonic crystal power splitter composed of a Y-junction and two 60° bends. First, a combination of two cascaded bends which is commonly used in integrated photonic crystal circuits is studied in slow light frequency regime. We propose a structure that its transmission spectrum covers the high group-index frequencies near the band edge. Also, by structural modifications, high transmission near to 95% is achieved in slow light bandwidth. Next, we study the complete structure of a photonic crystal power splitter with parallel outputs based on a Y-junction integrated with two 60° bends. Using modified bends and reducing sharpness of Y-junction, the efficiency of splitting increases in both high and low group-index frequency bands. The optimized structure has an average efficiency of 82% in slow mode regime. This structure can be used in photonic crystal based slow light devices, such as Mach-Zehnder interferometers.     

Temperature tunability of cavity-semiconducting waveguide coupling in a two-dimensional photonic crystal

We study the coupling efficiency between a cavity resonator and semiconducting waveguide in a two-dimensional photonic crystal by varying the temperature. We used the revised plane wave expansion and finite difference time domain methods to evaluate the coupling efficiency. The photonic crystal waveguide is composed of a row of InSb semiconducting materials, and the efficiency was calculated at various temperatures. The findings indicate that the temperature can be used as a useful efficiency controller.