Optical properties and electromagnetically induced grating in a hybrid semiconductor quantum dot-metallic nanorod system

An artificial molecule consisting of an SQD and an MNR embedded in 3D photonic crystal is proposed to realize EIG. Using the quantum mechanical density matrix approach, we have derived an expression of the absorption coefficient in the SQD in presence of MNR. Nanoparticle geometry can modify the local fields that determine SQD-MNP coupling and to engineer the hybrid optical response. The probe absorption is reduced via a strong coupling field, demonstrating spectral transparency window. It is worth noting that the background affects the relaxations of SQD. So, by making use of 3D photonic crystal as the background medium, reduced decay rate and consequently substantial local-field enhancement rate are provided. Based on EIT effect and a strong standing-wave field, diffraction grating is achievable. The first-order diffraction intensity can reach its maximum by tuning the system parameters. This model may be useful in designing new devices in all-optical communication.     

紫外线波段一维Ag/MgF_2光子特性的理论研究

利用传输矩阵方法对一维Ag/MgF2光子晶体的带隙特性进行了研究。构建了由Ag和MgF2组成的一维光子晶体结构模型,以此模型为基础详细讨论了填充比、周期层数、入射角等参数对光子晶体带隙结构的影响,并讨论了造成吸收的原因。研究结果表明,与其他金属光子晶体的研究结果相比,该结构的金属光子晶体在紫外线波段具有高反射率的光子带隙,属于不完全带隙的一维光子晶体,适用于制作紫外线波段的光学反射镜。     

Controlled optical properties of a five-level atom embedded in photonic crystals with defect modes

The optical spectra of a five-level atom embedded in a photonic crystal are studied by considering the double-band photonic band gap reservoir with defect modes in the band gap. It is shown that some interesting phenomena such as absorption, transparency, normal or anomalous dispersion, and large amplification of a weak probe field can be observed by modulating system parameters.     

Design and analysis of a novel single-mode single-polarization photonic crystal fibre based on polarization-dependent coupling and absorption effect

A novel single-mode single-polarization (SMSP) photonic crystal fibre has been proposed and analysed based on the polarization-dependent coupling and absorption effect via a full-vector finite element method with perfectly matched layers. The numerical results predict that very efficient SMSP operation can be achieved with both high bandwidth and high extinction ratio at low loss penalty. Effects of the fibre structural parameters on the SMSP bandwidth and extinction ratio have been explored, which will provide useful guide for the design and fabrication of the fibre. The results obtained will be instructive for the realization of new SMSP fibres with high performance.     

基于时域有限差分算法改进卷积完全匹配层的稳定性

为了克服时域有限差分算法中卷积完全匹配层对消逝波吸收效果差的缺点,提出一种在卷积完全匹配层后添加特殊吸收层的方法.在不增加物体与吸收层内层距离的情况下,通过调节特殊吸收层中两个衰减因子,使其为常数,并令吸收因子逐层从1增加到10,来增强吸收层对消逝波的吸收性能.平面波垂直入射到单层光子晶体的算例表明,添加了特殊吸收层的吸收边界在与散射体相距5个网格的情况下仍能够保持计算结果收敛,而传统的吸收边界则需要相距80个网格才能保证结果收敛,说明该方法提高了对消逝波的吸收性能.进一步在结构中采用此吸收边界来计算多层光子晶体的传输特性曲线,并将其与常规方法计算所得结果做比较,两种结果吻合较好.数值算例验证了该方法的有效性和正确性.     

Controllable Absorption and Dispersion Properties of an RF-drivenFive-Level Atom in a Double-Band Photonic-Band-Gap Material

The probe absorption-dispersion spectra of a radio-frequency (RF)-driven five-level atom embedded in a photonic crystal are investigated by considering the isotropic double-band photonic-band-gap (PBG) reservoir. In the model used, the two transitions are, respectively, coupled by the upper and lower bandsin such a PBG material, thus leading to some curious phenomena. Numerical simulations are performed for the optical spectra. It is found that when one transition frequency is inside the band gap and the other is outside the gap, there emerge three peaks in the absorption spectra. However, for the case that two transition frequencies lie inside or outside the band gap, the spectra display four absorption profiles. Especially, there appear two sharp peaksin the spectra when both transition frequencies exist inside the band gap. The influences of the intensity and frequency of the RF-driven field on the absorptive and dispersive response are analyzed under different band-edge positions. It is found that a transparency window appears in the absorption spectra and is accompanied by a very steep variation of the dispersion profile by adjusting system parameters. These results show that the absorption-dispersion properties of the system depend strongly on the RF-induced quantum interference and the density of states (DOS) of the PBG reservoir.     

细菌视紫红质用于光子逻辑门的研究

本文对基于细菌视紫红质变种材料D96N的三种基本光逻辑操作进行了研究.随着入射黄光强度的增加,菌紫质对黄光的吸收呈饱和吸收特性,此时紫光的照射将会使此饱和吸收阈值增加.在黄光和紫光对样品的共同作用下,透射光强度会被调制,调制的程度取决于这两束光的相对强度以及被调制光波长.通过观测被调制的525nm检测光强度,我们模拟了几种基本的光子逻辑运算:“非”、“或”和“与”运算.     

The beam splitting in the photonic crystal at a degenerate state

In this paper, using the plane-wave expansion and finite difference time-domain methods, the photons behavior in the photonic crystal is investigated. Theoretically, when a polarized wave is incident from the background medium to the photonic crystal, the beam propagation directions in the photonic crystal determined by two methods are approximately same. But in this paper, the results exhibit that there is an additional direction obtained by the finite difference time-domain method compared with the plane-wave expansion. Considering basic physical mechanism of the photon behavior, the present work circumvents the electromagnetic field distribution in the photonic crystal at a degenerate state, which can reasonably explain the phenomenon. Finally, it shows that a photonic crystal can be properly designed to achieve double refraction simultaneously at one frequency, which can also offer new thoughts and foundation for the novel beam splitter that applied to many optical systems.     

光子晶体表面结构的改变对成像的影响

负折射率材料因为其奇异的特性成为广泛研究的对象,尤其是光子晶体平板的完美成像.硅材料以其良好的物理性质成为当今集成光学领域中应用最广的材料之一.本文以硅介质柱在空气中周期性排列构成六角结构的光子晶体平板为例,运用平面波展开法进行光子晶体能带计算并运用时域有限差分法模拟改变光子晶体平板成像并讨论表面结构对成像的影响.光子晶体平板等效折射率为-1时,通过改变上下侧最外层介质柱的半径或是侧向移动最外层介质柱发现:当光子晶体平板表面结构发生改变时光子晶体平板仍能成像但像点强度发生变化.当光子晶体平板表面结构的改变在一定范围时,所成像的位置发生改变且位置变化符合光子晶体成像经典的Veselago关系;当光子晶体表面结构的变化超过该范围时,所成像与物的相位发生反相同时像点位置发生"巨变",此时Veselago关系已不成立.数值模拟表明:光子晶体平板表面结构的改变可以有效地改变该光子晶体平板所成像的强度、位置和相位.     

Complete analysis of photonic crystal fibers by full-vectorial 2D-FDTD method

In this paper, an extended finite difference time domain (FDTD) algorithm for the full-vectorial analysis of photonic crystal fibers has been derived. For achieving a good convergence and high accuracy, a kind of modified conformal FDTD method has been applied. An anisotropic perfectly matched layer for truncation of boundary conditions has been introduced. Material and chromatic dispersions are numerically investigated for the photonic crystal fibers with different dimensions and geometrical parameters and different dispersion behaviors are exhibited.     

基于细菌视紫红质光子逻辑门的实验研究

研究了基于细菌视紫红质(简称BR或菌紫质)变种材料D96N的3种光逻辑操作.在633nm激发光照射下，菌紫质分子会被激发到M态，处于M态的菌紫质对412nm的紫光呈较大吸收，会抑制同时入射的紫光.选择合适的紫光强度，通过CCD观测被抑制的412nm检测光透射强度分布，模拟了“非”、“或非”、“与非”几种基本的光子逻辑操作. 关键词： 细菌视紫红质 光子逻辑门 互补抑制     

Design of Two 8-Channel Optical Demultiplexers Using 2D Photonic Crystal Homogeneous Ring Resonators

ABSTRACT

Ring resonators have always been referred to as a highly flexible structure for designing optical devices. In this paper, we have designed and evaluated two 8-channel optical demultiplexers using photonic crystal ring resonators. The purpose of this study is to investigate the flexibility of this type of resonator for designing and manufacturing optical devices based on photonic crystals. To the extent that we have investigated the literature, there is no report so far on such a study. For this purpose, two structures with the same structural parameters, but only with a difference in the type of lattice constant (square or triangular) are used. Both structures have a common photonic band gap within a proper range for telecommunication applications used in wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) systems. Both designed structures have an average crosstalk of ?26 dB. For the demultiplexer structure with a square lattice constant, the quality factor and the transmission coefficient are 3,046 and 93.7% respectively, and its channel spacing is 1.97 nm. For the structure with a triangular lattice constant, the quality factor and the transmission coefficient are 1577.7 and 94.5%, respectively and its channel spacing is equal to 4 nm. To obtain the photonic band gap of the structures, the plane wave expansion (PWE) method is used and the output spectrum of the structures is obtained using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The good results obtained in this study is through designing and simulating optical demultiplexer structures only by creating a change in the type of lattice constant used. This undoubtedly justifies the high flexibility of ring resonators, when used in the design of optical devices, as well as their suitability for the use in WDM systems     

光子晶体光纤模式特征的研究

从基空间填充模出发，将光子晶体光纤的包层等效成均匀介质，从而将光子晶体光纤等效为阶跃折射率光纤。利用等效折射率模型，对光子晶体光纤的模式特征进行了详尽的研究，主要包括模式特性、传输常量、模场分布、功率限制特性、瑞利散射损牦特性、色散特性，等等。并通过功率限制因子这一参量将它与单模光纤进行比较。结果表明，光子晶体光纤单模工作波长范围比较宽，功率限制因子比较高，可用于制作更高抽运效率的光纤放大器。     

光子晶体波导定向耦合器

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；将时域有限差分方法(FDTD)用于光子晶体波导耦合研究，计算了不同耦合长度情形下的波导各个出口处的透过率，结果表明：光子晶体波导耦合遵循普通介质波导耦合的一般规律，也有定向耦合的功能。进一步的研究表明：对于不同的频率，光子晶体定向耦合器耦合系数是不同的，并且耦合系数和对应的频率之间近似直线关系。     

基于一维光子晶体微腔的全吸收器件

将具有高本征吸收的极化材料SiC引入到一维光子晶体中间,形成一维光子晶体微腔。利用传输矩阵方法,研究了这种含SiC材料的一维光子晶体微腔的光学特性:包括透射率、反射率和吸收率。研究结果表明该结构在波长λ=12.6μm处存在一个全吸收峰,该吸收峰在0°～50°的入射角度范围内不随角度和偏振模式的影响。该结构可以用来制作宽角度窄带全吸收器件,有望在热发射、太阳能光伏电池中得到应用。     

大带隙二维三角格子光子晶体结构参数的优化设计

光子晶体结构设计优化是理论研究的一个重要内容.运用平面波展开法对圆柱、方柱及正六边柱构造的二维三角格子光子晶体的禁带进行仿真计算,讨论了介质材料分别为GaAs、Si和Ge情况下,柱子形状、旋转角度、填充比的变化对完全光子禁带的影响.发现:对于二维三角格子光子晶体,相对于介质柱,空气柱更易获得完全光子禁带;而相对于圆柱及...     

Proposal for all-optical controllable switch using dipole induced transparency (DIT)

We propose a novel all-optical controllable switch using photonic crystal cavity. For doing this work, the dipole induced transparency phenomenon realized through interaction of light with multilevel nanocrystals is used. Multilevel nanocrystals are doped to photonic crystal rods. Using the proposed structure and applying the control field, the absorbing medium converts to transparent one and switching operation is obtained. Analytical relation for evaluation of the proposed device considering quantum optical effects is presented and studied by investigation of effects of parameters on switching characteristics. We show that high quality all-optical switching operation can be obtained.     

EXCITED-STATE NONLINEAR ABSORPTION AND ITS APPLICATION IN PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY

The main achievements in our research on the physical phenomena of the excited-state nonlinear absorption in a molecular system and its applications in photonic technology are described. In the first part of this paper, some energy-level models and rate-equations are used to explain various mechanisms of the excited-state nonlinear absorption under differ-ent conditions, such as reverse saturable absorption caused by the triplet and/or the singlet excited-state absorption; saturable absorption due to the first and/or the second singlet excited-state absorption; and the excited-state nonlinear absorption induced by two-photon absorption. The experimental results for metal-organic and C₆₀ materials irradiated by ps and ns laser pulses are consistent with the simulated curves of the transmittance versus flu-ences. In the second part, the applications of excited-state nonlinear absorption in photonic techniques including optical bistability, optical switching, optical limiting, optical modula-tion, optical logic and optical storage are introduced. The working principles of the photonic devices based on the excited-state nonlinear absorption are presented. The experimental characteristic curves are found in good agreement with the theoretical simulations for these devices.     

光子晶体器件进展

光子晶体对光具有独特的局域、反射、传导、分束、耦合、调制、慢光等操纵能力,使其成为微/纳光电集成的重要材料之一。介绍了光子晶体的几种重要物理特性——带隙特性、慢光特性、自准直和负折射特性,叙述了光子晶体集成器件方面所取得的最新进展,对光子晶体器件的发展动向做了展望。     

Enhancement of the SHG efficiency in a doubly resonant 2D-photonic crystal microcavity

In this paper we discuss the conditions to obtain the enhancement of second harmonic generation in a two-dimensional circular photonic crystal AlGaAs cavity. The photonic crystal circular cavity offers the possibility of having high-Q resonance modes with respect to those obtained with other types of photonic crystal lattices. The crystallographic cut of the AlGaAs provides a strong nonlinear coupling between a transverse-magnetic (TM) polarized resonant mode at the fundamental wavelength and a transverse-electric (TE) polarized resonant mode at second harmonic wavelength. The double resonance condition leads to a strong improvement of the second harmonic generation process. A preliminary linear analysis has been performed by using the finite-difference time-domain method, which includes the dispersive response of the material, modeled using the well-known one-pole pair Lorentzian function.