Photonic band gap failure in photonic crystal devices

The photonic crystal is an artificial material with periodic dielectric constant and the key factor to preserve their band features is its periodicity. When the number of periods of photonic crystal is decreased the photonic band gap cannot prevent the light of the corresponding frequencies from propagating in photonic crystal, in another word, photonic band gap will be failure. The minimum periods of photonic crystal device which can keep photonic band gap effective in miniaturization process is analyzed, the transmittance spectrum is calculated by the Finite-difference time-domain algorithm (FDTD) [1], the minimum periods is got in the simulation and the reason which affects the minimum periods is analyzed in this paper.     

Photonic band gap of three dimensional magnetized photonic crystal with Voigt configuration

We study Bessel beams of two-level atoms that are driven by a linearly polarized laser field. Starting from the Schrödinger equation, we determine the states of two-level atoms in a plane-wave field respecting propagation directions both of the atom and the field. For such laser-driven two-level atoms, we construct Bessel beams beyond the typical paraxial approximation. We show that the probability density of these atomic beams obtains a non-trivial, Bessel-squared-type behavior and can be tuned under the special choice of the atom and laser parameters, such as the nuclear charge, atom velocity, laser frequency, and propagation geometry of the atom and laser beams. Moreover, we spatially and temporally characterize the beam of hydrogen and selected (neutral) alkali-metal atoms that carry non-zero orbital angular momentum (OAM). The proposed spatiotemporal Bessel states (i) are able to describe, in principle, twisted states of any two-level system which is driven by the radiation field and (ii) have potential applications in atomic and nuclear processes as well as in quantum communication.     

基于六角结构二维光子晶体绝对带隙的优化设计研究

根据平面波展开法对二维光子晶体的能带结构进行计算，采用栅格结构连接电介质圆柱体对六角结构的二维光子晶体进行了优化. 通过计算栅格宽度和圆柱体半径对绝对带隙的影响，找到了一组可以获得大带隙二维光子晶体结构的最佳参数.优化后的光子晶体的大带隙对光子晶体制造工艺中介质圆柱体半径的偏离具有很好的稳定性，因此该结构的二维光子晶体具有很高的实用性. 关键词： 光子晶体 绝对带隙 六角结构     

Study on complete band gap of two-dimensional photonic crystal with quadrangular rods

The plane wave expansion method (PWM) was employed to study the relation between the photonic band gap (PBG) of 2D triangular lattice photonic crystal (PC) and the shapes of rods and dielectric constant. It is shown that the PBG of PC with quadrangular rods is the widest one, compared with the other case with cross section shapes of triangular, circular and hexagon under the same filling ratio, and a peak value appears when the side length ratio of l_x/l_y is equal to 1.21 approximately to any filling ratio. In the aspect of the effects of dielectric constant, the PBG width does not increase monotonically with the increase permittivity ?₂ of the background material to certain permittivity ?₁ of the quadrangular rods, but has a peak value instead. However, the larger the permittivity ?₁ is, the narrower the band width is and the lower the central frequency is, and the dispersion Δ? = ?₂ − ?₁ is larger also.     

Large complete band gap in two-dimensional phononic crystal slabs with elliptic inclusions

Phononic band structure with periodic elliptic inclusions for the square lattice is investigated based on the plane wave expansion method. The numerical results show the systems composed of tungsten (W) elliptic rods embedded in a silicon (Si) matrix can exhibit a larger complete band gap than the conventional circular phononic crystal (PC) slabs. The phononic band structure of the plate-mode waves and the width of the first complete band gap can be tuned by varying the ratio of the minor axis and the major axis, the orientation angle of the elliptic rods and the thickness of the PC slabs. We also study the band structure of plate-mode waves propagating in two-dimensional (2D) slabs with periodic elliptic inclusions coated on uniform substrate.     

Photonic band gap architectures for holographic lithography

Using symmetry considerations, we identify three families of large photonic band-gap (PBG) architectures defined by the isointensity surfaces of four beam laser interference. For particular choices of beam intensities, directions, and polarizations, we obtain a diamondlike crystal, a novel body-centered cubic architecture, and a simple cubic structure with PBG to center frequency ratios of 25%, 21%, and 11%, respectively, when the isointensity surface defines a silicon (dielectric constant of 11.9) to air boundary.     

中红外波段硅基两维光子晶体的光子带隙

利用电化学腐蚀的方法制备了大多孔硅两维光子晶体.结构图形对称性为正方格子，其结构参数为正方形晶格周期a=44μm，正方形空气柱的边长l=2μm.并用显微红外光谱仪表征了光谱性质，揭示了所制备两维光子晶体样品的中红外波段光子的反射特性. 关键词： 光子晶体 光子带隙 反射谱 时域有限差分法     

Enlargement of complete two-dimensional band gap by using photonic crystal heterostructure

A two-dimensional photonic crystal heterostructure, which consists of two photonic crystals of a square lattice of circular columns with reverse dielectric configurations, is proposed. Photonic band gap properties are calculated using a plane-wave method and the transmission spectra are obtained. After optimization, the relative width of the complete band gap reached 13.8% based on the simple unit-cell shape and crystal lattice. The photonic crystal heterostructure opens up new ways of engineering photonic band gap materials and designing photonic crystal devices.     

Three-dimensional photonic quasicrystal with a complete band gap

The band structure of three-dimensional cubic approximants of a photonic quasicrystal has been determined by numerical calculation. The approximants of different orders appear to have large, almost isotropic, band gaps in a wide range of relative permittivity values. The existence of the complete band gap in the photonic quasicrystal with the six-dimensional bcc lattice is shown.     

Search target band gap with inverse band structure approach for complex superlattices

Because it is too difficult to pick out the needed structures from the vast possible configurations, complex superlattices have not been studied well for a long time. In this paper, an inverse band structure (IBS) approach which combined genetic algorithm search method with an empirical spds* tight-binding energy band calculation to address this problem is presented. Needed direct energy band gaps of Ga(Al)As complex superlattices are found by using this approach. It can be found that the band gap value can be same for different superlattice structures, but other properties of these complex superlattices could be different.     

大带隙的二维各向异性椭圆介质柱光子晶体

用平面波展开方法及时域有限差分法计算了各向异性介质材料碲形成的椭圆柱光子晶体的带隙结构.计算表明,选取适当的椭圆长短轴以及晶格常数可以形成约0.051ωe(ωe=2πcLy,Ly为沿长轴的晶格常数)的大带隙,而且在高能区域也出现了一个小的禁带.分析表明,该光子晶体大禁带对工艺上可能引起的轴长及晶格常数的偏离具有很好的稳定性. 关键词： 光子晶体 各向异性 平面波展开方法 时域有限差分法     

2D photonic crystal complete band gap search using a cyclic cellular automaton refination

We present a refination method based on a cyclic cellular automaton (CCA) that simulates a crystallization-like process, aided with a heuristic evolutionary method called differential evolution (DE) used to perform an ordered search of full photonic band gaps (FPBGs) in a 2D photonic crystal (PC). The solution is proposed as a combinatorial optimization of the elements in a binary array. These elements represent the existence or absence of a dielectric material surrounded by air, thus representing a general geometry whose search space is defined by the number of elements in such array. A block-iterative frequency-domain method was used to compute the FPBGs on a PC, when present. DE has proved to be useful in combinatorial problems and we also present an implementation feature that takes advantage of the periodic nature of PCs to enhance the convergence of this algorithm. Finally, we used this methodology to find a PC structure with a 19% bandgap-to-midgap ratio without requiring previous information of suboptimal configurations and we made a statistical study of how it is affected by disorder in the borders of the structure compared with a previous work that uses a genetic algorithm.     

Photonic amorphous diamond structure with a 3D photonic band gap

We report that a full three-dimensional (3D) photonic band gap (PBG) is formed in a photonic amorphous structure in spite of complete lack of lattice periodicity. It is numerically shown that the structure "photonic amorphous diamond" possesses a sizable 3D PBG (18% of the center frequency for Si-air dielectric contrast) and that it can confine light at a defect as strongly as conventional photonic crystals can. These findings present important new insight into the origin of 3D PBG formation and open new possibilities in developing 3D PBG materials.     

二维光子晶体禁带特性研究

采用平面波展开法对二维光子晶体分别在E和H极化下的带隙进行了计算. 考虑了填充比、晶格结构、介电常数对最大绝对帯隙的影响. 结果表明,不论是正方晶格还是三角晶格,TM模在介质柱型光子晶体中更容易形成带隙;TE模在空气孔型光子晶体中更容易形成带隙. 填充比一定,最大绝对帯隙宽度并非随着介电常数增大总是增大,而是存在一个峰值. 相对介电常数一定,最大绝对帯隙宽度随填充比的变化也存在一个峰值. 不论空气孔型还是介质柱型结构,三角晶格比正方晶格更容易形成帯隙. 关键词： 平面波展开法 TE模 TM模 最大绝对帯隙     

Photonic band gap properties of GaP opals with a new topology

In this paper, we propose that the “anomalous” optical response exhibited by GaP and InP infiltrated opals is due to the peculiar morphology shown by these materials when grown within the pores. In order to account for their optical response, we propose a new structural model consisting of a network of high dielectric spheres located in the pores of the bare opal, interconnected by cylinders of the same material. A fair agreement between the theoretical predictions using this model and the experimental measurements has been found. We also show that the inverse structure presents very interesting optical properties.     

Photonic band structure calculations for metal-clad two-dimensional photonic crystal slab

We study the effect of metallic cladding on the band structure of a two-dimensional photonic crystal slab. Band structures of a honeycomb patterned two-dimensional photonic crystal slab, with/without a metal-clad or a perfect conductor clad, are calculated using both the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method and the plane wave expansion (PWE) method. We explain the changes of the band structure due to cladding. We also show that the band structure of a metal-clad photonic crystal can be obtained effectively from the odd modes of the air bridge type dielectric photonic crystal slab, thicker than the metal-clad photonic crystal by a factor larger than two.     

Photonic band gap engineering in 2D photonic crystals

The polarization-dependent photonic band gaps (TM and TE polarizations) in two-dimensional photonic crystals with square lattices composed of air holes in dielectric and vice versa i.e., dielectric rods in air, using the plane-wave expansion method are investigated. We then study, how the photonic band gap size is affected by the changing ellipticity of the constituent air holes/dielectric rods. It is observed that the size of the photonic band gap changes with changing ellipticity of the constituent air holes/dielectric rods. Further, it is reported, how the photonic band gap size is affected by the change in the orientation of the constituent elliptical air holes/dielectric rods in 2D photonic crystals.     

低频和高频区域内大禁带的二维各向异性光子晶体

采用一种改进的平面波展开法,运用一种有效的设计二维各向异性光子晶体的方法,在低频和高频区域内获得了具有较大禁带的两种二维光子晶体.低频区域内,找到具有最大禁带宽度的光子晶体的禁带宽度为Δω=0076(2πca),中心频率为0769(2πca)(这里的a为晶格常量).高频区域内,找到的光子晶体的最大禁带宽度为Δω=01(2πcα),中心频率为1653(2πca).同时在低频区域内,发现一种很简单的正方网格结构,它的禁带宽度为Δω=00574(2πca),禁带宽度与禁带的中心频率之比为Δωωc=11782%. 关键词： 光子晶体 平面波展开法 各向异性材料 完全禁带     

Photonic band gap effect in one-dimensional plasma dielectric photonic crystals

Propagation of electromagnetic waves in one-dimensional plasma dielectric photonic crystals, the superlattice structure consisting of alternating plasma and dielectric materials, is studied theoretically using transfer matrix method. Numerical calculation is presented for plasma-air finite and infinite periodic structures. The results of photonic band gap characteristics are discussed in terms of plasma density, plasma width, and number of unit cells (N).