基于光子晶体异质结的高效太阳能电池反射器研究

设计了一种可用于太阳能电池反射器的二维三角晶格光子晶体异质结结构.采用传输矩阵法对该结构在可见至近红外波长范围入射电磁波的反射率进行了模拟计算,并比较了不同入射方向下反射率的变化.结果表明,光线垂直入射时,该结构光子晶体对近红外波段入射光可实现完全反射;随着偏转角度的增大,在整个可见-近红外波段均显示出极高的反射特性.该结构有望用于制作覆盖整个可见光-近红外波段的高效全方位反射器.     

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     

基于自准直效应的光子晶体异质结偏振分束器

基于光子晶体的自准直效应和禁带特性,提出了一种具有非正交异质结结构的光子晶体偏振分束器.无需引入缺陷或波导,可使光波在该结构中准直无发散地传输并实现分束功能,对制造工艺的要求大大降低.利用Rsoft软件,结合平面波展开法和二维时域有限差分法,对提出的偏振分束器进行了仿真研究.结果表明,该偏振分束器在一个较大的频率范围f=0.275—0.285(a/λ)内可实现横电(TE)和横磁(TM)模的大角度偏振分离,TE和TM模的透过率均在88%以上,偏振消光比分别大于26.57 dB和17.50 dB.该结构可应用到太赫兹波段的传输系统中,a=26μm,尺寸大小为572μm×546μm,在91—95μm波长范围内可实现TE和TM模的分离.利用该结构可设计用于光通信系统(n=3.48)的偏振分束器,a=426.25 nm,结构仅为9.38μm×8.95μm.本方案结构简单,易于集成,有望在集成光路的发展中发挥重要作用.     

六角蜂窝结构光子晶体异质结带隙特性研究

利用蜂窝结构光子晶体具有两个范围较大绝对带隙的特性，设计新型六角蜂窝结构光子晶体异质结，采用平面波展开和超晶胞相结合的方法来研究异质结的能带结构特性.给出异质结的结构和相应的能带图，分析异质结界面传导模，研究两侧结构作横向拉开和侧向滑移时对传导模的影响，讨论这些结构的实际可行性.计算结果表明，没有任何晶格移动，此种结构异质结在绝对带隙中就有导模存在，两边晶格横向拉开对导模影响较大，而侧向滑移的影响则较小. 关键词： 光子晶体 异质结 光子带隙 超晶胞     

基于异质结界面优化的光子晶体二极管单向传输特性研究

基于光子晶体异质结结构的全光二极管是目前的一个研究热点,使其具有更好的单向传输特性是研究的一个目标.本文中通过改变异质结界面处的光子晶体结构,提出了不同的优化设计方案,在宽频带内实现了高对比度全光二极管的高效率单向传输,并且该结构还具有分束特性.     

级联一维光子晶体全方位反射器的带宽最大化

理论研究了由级联一维光子晶体构成的光子异质结构的全方位透射(反射)特性.其中各级联光子晶体的高低折射率介质相同、光学厚度比不同.以两个光子晶体级联的结构为对象,利用传输矩阵方法系统研究了不同偏振态光在不同入射角时光子帯隙的变化,得出实现全方位光子带隙的最大展宽条件,即前一光子晶体的帯隙上限要和后一光子晶体的带隙下限在最大入射角时重合.分别给出了满足和不满足该最大展宽条件的级联结构的全方位带隙参量,通过对全方位带隙宽度的比较说明了满足最大展宽条件的级联结构具有最大的全方位带隙宽度.     

光子晶体异质结耦合波导光开关

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平行的单模线缺陷波导,以一行耦合介质柱为间距,通过调节部分耦合介质柱的折射率,构筑了光子晶体异质结耦合波导光开关结构。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,缺陷波导间耦合介质柱的折射率不同时的耦合长度,确定了合适的光子晶体异质结耦合波导光开关的结构参数。利用时域有限差分法研究了该光开关中耦合介质柱的折射率变化及异质结构介质柱的位置分布对光信号输出路径的影响。结果表明,通过改变该结构中耦合介质柱的折射率可以改变光的输出路径,可实现光的开关行为。并且异质结构介质柱位置的随机分布对该光开关的影响不大,有助于光子晶体新型滤波器、定向耦合器、波分复用器以及光开关等光子器件的研究。     

不同晶格光子晶体异质结的界面传导模

利用平面波展开方法与超原胞方法研究了两种不同晶格的光子晶体异质结的界面态. 这两种异质结都是在纯电介质背景上放置空气散射子. 一种异质结由正方形格子上放置正方形散射子和三角形格子上放置六角形散射子组成（SSTH异质结）. 另一种由长方格子上放置长方形散射子和三角形格子上放置圆形散射子组成（RRTC异质结）. 对于SSTH异质结，当沿着界面作晶格的横向拉开或者侧向滑移，都可产生界面态. 而对于RRTC异质结，无需从界面做晶格拉开或者侧向滑移就可产生界面传导模，这个结果有别于其他纯电介质光子晶体异质结的性质. 关键词： 光子晶体 异质结 传导模 超原胞     

不同晶格磁性光子晶体异质结的界面传导模

利用平面波展开方法研究了两种二维磁性光子晶体(MPC)的带隙(PBG)结构,一种磁性光子晶体是在长方格子纯电介质背景上放置磁性介质长方形散射子,另一种是在三角形格子纯电介质背景上放置磁性介质圆形散射子。计算了这两种磁性光子晶体的带隙随磁导率的变化规律,发现这两种磁性光子晶体的带隙宽高比(带隙宽与带隙中心位置比)都比较大。在此基础上由这两种磁性光子晶体构成了磁性光子晶体异质结(MRRTC异质结),并利用超原胞方法计算了这种异质结的带隙结构。研究发现MRRTC异质结无需从界面做晶格拉开或者侧向滑移就可在绝对带隙中产生界面传导模。分别从MRRTC异质结的界面处做晶格拉开和侧向滑移,发现传导模位置及形状发生了很大变化。     

异质镜像光子晶体的光子带隙研究

对异质镜像结构光子晶体(ABCCBA)^N进行了研究。首先,利用一维介电体系中处理光传播的方法--传输矩阵法,详细推导了异质镜像光子晶体透射率的计算公式;然后,采用Matlab软件编程仿真并分析了光子带隙形成与镜像周期数目、光子带隙数目与光子晶体薄层厚度、光子带隙位置与入射角大小等的关系。结果表明:光子带隙的形成及变化主要受光子晶体薄层厚度及入射角大小变化的影响。通过改变影响光子晶体光子带隙的参数,可得到不同频段的光子带隙,用来制作高质量反射镜、滤波器和发光二极管等。     

Synthesis and photonic band gap characterization of high quality photonic crystal heterostructures

High quality photonic crystal heterostructures with a thin titania planar defect layer between its two constitutional photonic crystals were fabricated and their structural and optical properties were analyzed. The results suggest that the thin planar defect layer is beneficial to separate the two constitutional photonic crystals from each other and to reduce the roughness of the interface. The quality of the resulting photonic crystal heterostructures is improved largely and the main features of the photonic band gaps of the two constitutional photonic crystals are inherited. The predominant optical quality of these heterostructures (e.g. deep double photonic band gaps and steep photonic band edges) may afford new flexibility and functionality for engineered photonic behavior in practical devices such as late-model light-operated switches.     

Large range of omni-directional reflection in 1D photonic crystal heterostructures

A simple design of one-dimensional omni-directional reflector based on photonic crystal heterostructures structure has been proposed. The proposed structure consists of a periodic array of alternate layers of SiO₂ and Te as the materials of low and high refractive indices, respectively. The structure considered here has three stacks of periodic structures having five layers each. The lattice period of successive stack is increased by a certain multiple (say gradual constant, δ) of the lattice period of the just preceding stack. For numerical computation, the method of transfer matrix method (TMM) has been employed. It is found that such a structure has wider reflection bands in comparison to a conventional dielectric PC structure and the width of the omni-directional reflection (ODR) bands can be enlarged by increasing the value of the gradual constant δ.     

二维声子晶体异质位错结的界面传导模研究

以二维水银／四氯化碳体系正方格子声子晶体为研究对象，采用平面波法结合超元胞的方法研究了声子晶体异质位错结的能带结构及三种形式的位错对带隙内传导模影响。结果表明，对于原型异质结，在带隙中不会出现界面传导模；横、纵向及横纵向同时作用的位错效应，在界面处形成传导模，可以使处于禁带频率范围内的声波沿位错通道进行传播，从而形成声波导。     

Ultra-compact polarization beam splitter based on photonic crystal waveguides

The authors design an ultra-compact all-PC-integrated polarization beam splitter which is only composed of three waveguides: one input waveguide and two output waveguides. The input waveguide can support both TM and TE modes, but one of the two output waveguides can only support TM modes while the other can only support TE modes. So an incident beam will be separated into two different polarization beams which emerge from different output waveguides. By the simulation of finite-difference time-domain method, we know that the polarization beam splitter really works the way as we predict.     

Terahertz power splitter based on ferrite photonic crystal

In this paper, we design a novel Y-junction power splitter which is optimized according to coupled mode theory. Two rods are added in the junction. One rod is a silicon rod and another one is a ferrite rod, the refractive index of which can be varied by adjusting the external magnetic field. So, it not only can split the power, but also controls the output energy of the two branches automatically. The transmission spectrum is calculated by finite difference time domain (FDTD) method, which shows that the output energy of the two branches is closely related to the frequency of the incident terahertz (THz) wave and the refractive index of the ferrite rod. The device is a good candidate for integrated optical circuit, the tuning rate of which is about a few microseconds.     

Fabrication of 2D–3D photonic crystal heterostructures by glancing angle deposition

We fabricate 2D–3D photonic crystal heterostructures based on the silicon [001]-diamond:1 square spiral geometry using glancing angle deposition. We compare the normal incidence reflection properties of the fabricated 2D–3D heterostructures to simulated spectra generated using finite-difference time-domain calculations. Reflection peaks are observed, resulting from the presence of a photonic band gap, and defect modes are created by the 2D layer. Deterioration of the reflectance peaks with increased number of vertical spiral periods is observed. A series of square spiral structures are fabricated with a varying number of vertical periods to quantify the degradation of reflection peaks. At normal light incidence, a maximum reflection peak is observed from the film with three vertical periods. Beyond three spiral rotations, deterioration of the substrate-plane periodicity causes scattering losses.     

Effect of anisotropy on the photonic band gap and surface polaritons of a one-dimensional single-negative photonic crystal

The effect of anisotropy on the photonic band structure and surface polaritons of a one-dimensional photonic crystal made of uniaxially anisotropic epsilon-negative (ε<0,μ>0) and mu-negative (ε>0,μ<0) metamaterials is theoretically investigated. Two different cases of uniaxially anisotropic epsilon-negative and mu-negative metamaterials are considered. It is found out that for one case of anisotropy, one-dimensional photonic crystal does not have any single-negative band gap. As a result, it can not support the surface polaritons. While, for another case, the structure shows single-negative band gaps. So, the surface polaritons can be excited at the interface of such a photonic crystal. However, these surface polaritons, unlike the isotropic case, are not omnidirectional and they are restricted to a limited rang of the propagation constant.     

Butterfly wing color: A photonic crystal demonstration

We have theoretically modeled the optical behavior of a natural occurring photonic crystal, as defined by the geometrical characteristics of the Teinopalpus Imperialis butterfly. In particular, following a genetic algorithm approach, we demonstrate how its wings follow a triclinic crystal geometry with a tetrahedron unit base. By performing both photonic band analysis and transmission/reflection simulations, we are able to explain the characteristic colors emerging by the butterfly wings, thus confirming their crystal form.     

Polarization properties of rectangular lattice photonic crystal fiber

In this paper, polarization properties and propagation characteristics of rectangular lattice photonic crystal fibers with elliptical air-holes are investigated by using the full-vector finite element method with anisotropic perfectly matched layers. Numerical results show that the birefringence of the fiber is induced by asymmetries of the cladding. Moreover, by adjusting its structure parameters, such as the hole pitch Λ, and the air-hole elliptical rate η, we find the optimized design parameters of the fiber with high birefringence (the order of 10⁻²) and limited polarization mode dispersion, operating in a single mode region at an appropriate wavelength range.     

Highly birefrigent photonic crystal fiber with high negative dispersion for broadband dispersion compensation

In this paper, we proposed a dual-enhanced core photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with high birefringence and ultra-high negative dispersion for dispersion compensation in a polarization maintained optical system. Using finite difference time domain (FDTD) method, we presented dispersion compensating PCF (DC-PCF) with negative dispersion between −1650 ps nm⁻¹ km⁻¹ and −2305 ps nm⁻¹ km⁻¹ in C-band and particularly −2108 ps nm⁻¹ km⁻¹ in λ = 1.55 μm wavelength. By this method, we can compensate dispersion in 124 km long span of a conventional single mode fiber (SMF) by 1 km-long of the DC-PCF at λ = 1.55 μm wavelength. Moreover, fundamental mode of the proposed PCF can induce birefringence about 3.5 × 10⁻³ at 1.55 μm wavelength.