十二重准晶中的方向缺陷

采用多重散射的方法研究了十二重准晶中的缺陷模,发现在十二重准晶中存在方向缺陷,且当缺陷组合围绕对称中心旋转时,在保持原有缺陷模的基础上,出现了新的缺陷模. 关键词： 准晶 缺陷 带隙     

Theoretical study of light localization in photonic bandgaps of organic octagonal quasiperiodic photonic crystal slabs

Based on the polystyrene material of low refractive index, light localization in photonic bandgaps of two kinds of 2D octagonal quasiperiodic photonic crystal slabs are investigated in theory, including the air-rod polystyrene slab and polystyrene-rod slab. The properties of bandgaps and localized modes in both two defect-free patterns are analyzed in detail. When a single-point defect is introduced into two quasiperiodic structures, the position of emerging defect modes and the red-shifting of resonant modes in wavelength are observed quite differently when the defect microcavity is increased in size. This difference is caused by the competition of two physical mechanisms, which are the effect of defect energy levels caused by defects introduced into photonic crystals and the resonance of modes in the defect cavity. These results will provide theoretical support for experimental fabrication of organic light-emitting quasiperiodic photonic crystal devices.     

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.     

混合准周期异质结构的带隙补偿与展宽

基于一维光子晶体异质结构的多帯隙交叠补偿思想,提出了一种新颖的混合准周期级联结构,用于扩大全方位光子带隙.该全方位反射器结构由Fibonacci准周期结构和Thue-Morse准周期结构级联构成,研究表明,相比单种准周期结构,其全方位光子带隙宽度有显著提高.系统研究了结构参数(如周期数、阶数、介质折射率和厚度)对该结构光子带隙的影响,通过与周期结构带隙特性的比较,分析了准周期结构易于实现多带隙交叠的原因,为更复杂带隙结构的补偿和展宽奠定了设计基础.     

Stimulated emission from two-dimensional nested rectangle photonic crystal fibers

In this paper, we use the theory of spontaneous emission of two-level atoms embedded in photonic crystals. The unavoidable existence of a localized field with a defect mode and its basic properties are confirmed, which enables one to study the inherent laws of spontaneous emission from doped media. We combine the theory of spontaneous emission with numerical simulation for studying stimulated emission in a doped localized field and conditions for increasing the emission. The inherent laws for the cases where transmissivity is larger than unity and the negative imaginary part of the complex refractive index in doped compound lattices appears are also studied. The analysis of two-dimensional nested rectangle photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) with and without active impurities was performed using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. We find that, when active impurities are introduced into photonic crystal fibers, the negative imaginary part of the complex refractive index appears and the doped mode with high quality factor and great mode density occurs in the photonic forbidden band, thus amplifying substantially the stimulated emission.     

Laser nanosources based on planar photonic crystals as new platforms for nanophotonic devices

Two-dimensional photonic crystal lasers have been fabricated on III–V semiconductor slabs. Tuning of the spontaneous emission in micro and nanocavities has been achieved by accurate control of the slab thickness. Different structures, some of them of new application to photonic crystal lasers, have been fabricated like the Suzuki-phase or the coupled-cavity ring-like resonators. Laser emission has been obtained by pulsed optical pumping. Optical characterization of the lasing modes have been performed showing one or more laser peaks centred around 1.55 μm. Far field characterization of the emission pattern has been realized showing different patterns depending on the geometrical shape of the structures. These kinds of devices may be used as efficient nanolaser sources for optical communications or optical sensors.     

Random lasing in an organic light‐emitting crystal and its interplay with vertical cavity feedback

The simultaneous vertical‐cavity and random lasing emission properties of a blue‐emitting molecular crystal are investigated. The 1,1,4,4‐tetraphenyl‐1,3‐butadiene samples, grown by physical vapour transport, feature room‐temperature stimulated emission peaked at about 430 nm. Fabry‐Pérot and random resonances are primed by the interfaces of the crystal with external media and by defect scatterers, respectively. The analysis of the resulting lasing spectra evidences the existence of narrow peaks due to both the built‐in vertical Fabry‐Pérot cavity and random lasing in a novel, surface‐emitting configuration and threshold around 500 μJ cm⁻². The anti‐correlation between different modes is also highlighted, due to competition for gain. Molecular crystals with optical gain candidate as promising photonic media inherently supporting multiple lasing mechanisms.     

光子晶体对nc-Ge/Si岛发光增强的模拟

在Si基集成光电子学的发展中,高效的Si基光源是人们不懈追求的目标。但是Si材料的间接带隙特性导致其发光效率低,更谈不上受激发射。于是人们探索了多种Si基材料体系来提高Si材料的发光效率,并在不同程度上取得了重要的进展。在众多的Si基发光材料体系中,Ge/Si量子点材料,不仅生长工艺与标准的CMOS工艺有很好的兼容性,而且发光波长能够覆盖重要的光通信波段即1.3~1.55μm,因此成为实现Si基发光器件的重要途径之一。但是目前这种材料的发光效率仍很低,所以提高其发光效率自然成为人们关注的焦点。如果将光子晶体引入到nc-Ge/Si材料中,它不仅可以改变材料本身的自发发射特性,而且可以改变发射的光子的提取效率,从而使材料的发光效率得到增强。提出了在Ge/Si量子点材料中引入光子晶体结构来提高其发光效率,包括光子晶体点缺陷腔结构和带边模式工作的完整光子晶体结构,并从理论上分析了发光效率提高的原理。针对发光波长在1.5μm附近的材料结构,模拟出了相应的光子晶体的结构参数。从模拟结果可以看出,对于缺陷腔的光子晶体结构,采用单点缺陷微腔很好地实现了单模运作,但是微腔内有源材料的体积很小,因此得到的发光效率很低。而采用耦合缺陷腔的结构和H₂腔都增加了腔内有源区的体积。但是耦合腔与H₂腔相比,谐振腔模减少,主谐振模式的峰值强度增加,更容易实现单模发光。因而更适用于提高nc-Ge/Si的发光效率。而带边模式工作的光子晶体结构,尺寸较大,不需引入缺陷,工艺上更容易实现。     

Tunable narrow-band infrared emitters from hexagonal lattices

In this work, we present both the theoretical basis as well as supporting experimental measurements for development of a novel mid-infrared thermally stimulated narrow band emitter with a spectral bandwidth of less than 10%. To achieve this, we utilize a metallized-surface 2D photonic crystal of air voids in a silicon background with hexagonal structure symmetry. Our results are based on the generation of discrete surface plasmon (SP) modes in the thin metallized layer residing on the top surface. This yields a series of adequately spaced discrete peaks in the reflection spectrum, dominated by a single sharp feature corresponding to the lowest plasmon order, in an otherwise uniform highly reflective spectrum (>90%) over most of the IR spectrum. This, in turn, gives rise to a sharp absorption feature with a correspondingly narrow thermal emission peak in the emission spectrum. Transfer matrix calculations simulate well both the position and strengths of the absorption peaks. By altering the period of the surface photonic lattice, the SP peak and emissive band can be tuned to the desired wavelength. These devices promise a new class of tunable infrared emitters with high power in a narrow spectral bandwidth. Such narrow band sources are critical to achieving high efficiency gas sensors.     

二维八重准晶有机光子晶体平板的光学传播特性

采用时域有限差分法研究了二维八重准晶有机光子晶体的光传输特性,重点分析了光束在聚苯乙烯空气柱平板结构和聚苯乙烯介质柱结构中的透射特性与光局域特性。研究结果表明,即使在低折射率对比度的情况下,两种完整八重准晶平板结构中均出现了可见光波段的光子带隙和本征模,且光子带隙中心位置随着平板厚度的增大而红移。当在两种准晶结构中引入缺陷微腔时,带隙内的缺陷模产生位置和波长红移特性随着微腔结构的变化规律明显不同,这种差异性是由两种物理机制(即光子晶体缺陷能级变化与微腔所支持的驻波条件)共同作用的结果。这一研究结果将为实验制备有机准晶发光器件提供一定的理论基础。     

Smith-Purcell radiation from a charge running near the surface of a photonic crystal

Smith-Purcell radiation from a charge running near a photonic crystal is calculated for a slab system of a periodic array of dielectric spheres, with the photonic band effect taken into account exactly. The radiation spectrum has a series of resonantly enhanced structures, which are shown to arise accompanying the excitation of the photonic bands. It is also shown that the overall intensity of the emission band does not depend very strongly on the slab thickness but the height of the resonant peaks increases progressively with thickness due to the enhanced Q value of excited photonic bands.     

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。     

用两端对称缺陷复合光子晶体实现多通道滤波和光开关

用传输矩阵法计算了两端对称缺陷复合光子晶体结构的光传输特性。计算结果表明:两端对称缺陷复合光子晶体[D(AB)mD]2结构中的禁带出现两个完全共振透射峰。通过控制入射光强来微调光子晶体材料的介电常数,使得完全共振透射峰移动,且介电常数变化越大,共振透射峰偏移越大,从而形成高效率的双通道光开关。当光子晶体为[D(AB)mD]N结构时,每个完全共振透射峰都分裂为N-1条,这样可通过调节N同时实现所需要通道数目的高效多通道光开关和多通道滤波器。     

高双折射光子晶体光纤中均匀布拉格光栅的特性

研究了具有高双折射的光子晶体光纤(HB PCF)中均匀布拉格光栅(FBG)的光谱特性。利用紧凑的超格子模型,对光子晶体光纤的传输特性进行分析,研究正向传输和反向传输的模式之间的耦合规律,从而研究写入光子晶体光纤中的均匀布拉格光栅的特性。首先给出具有C6v对称性的零双折射光子晶体光纤中光纤布拉格光栅的布拉格波长λB随光纤结构参量的变化规律;然后分析一种高双折射光子晶体光纤中的光纤布拉格光栅的光谱特性,高双折射使两个不同偏振态的反射峰分开较大;最后分析了一种常用的双模双折射光子晶体光纤中光纤布拉格光栅的光谱特性,LP01模和LPe11模的两个偏振态对应的反射谱都由于高双折射而分开。     

Spontaneous emission spectrum of a four-level atom in a double-band photonic crystal

The spontaneous emission spectrum from a four-level atom in a double-band photonic crystal has been investigated.We use the model which assumes three atomic transitions. One of the transitions interacts with the free vacuum modes,and the other two transitions couple to the modes of the isotropic photonic band gap (PBG), the anisotropic PBG and another free vacuum. The effects of the fine structure of the lower levels on the spontaneous emission spectrum of an atom are investigated in detail in the three cases. New features of four (two) transparencies with two (one) spontaneous emission peaks, resulting from the fine structure of the lower levels of an atom, are predicted in the case of isotropic PBG modes.     

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。     

含负折射率材料的异质结构光子晶体的光学传输特性

利用传输矩阵法研究了正负折射率材料构成的异质结构光子晶体的光学传输特性。结果表明:当入射波正入射时,在这种异质结构光子晶体内出现了光子带隙,并且带隙内出现了3个极窄的透射峰,这是正负交替光子晶体和常规材料构成的同周期一维异质结构光子晶体所不具有的新颖物理特性。计算了这种异质结构光子晶体的透射谱。发现:这3个透射峰不敏感于入射角的变化,而在带隙两侧的透射峰则会随着入射角增大统一向带隙靠近;能带敏感于晶格厚度和周期数的变化。     

Thermal emission properties of 2D and 3D silicon photonic crystals

We present measurements of the thermal emission properties of 2D and 3D silicon photonic crystals with and without substrate heated resistively as well as passively with an aluminium hotplate. The out-of-plane and in-plane emission properties were recorded and compared to numerical simulation. It turned out that for the in-plane 2D photonic crystal and out-of-plane 3D photonic crystal emission a photonic stop gap effect is visible. For the out-of-plane 2D photonic crystal emission, no photonic bandgap effect is observable but instead strong silicon oxide emission from native oxide inside the pores of silicon are observable. A model for the modified thermal emission is presented.     

Computer simulation and observation of anomalous light emission from nonlinear photonic crystal with various geometry of its elements

Recently, in papers [1, 2] were described the effect of long-time emission of photonic crystal (synthetic opals) under the action of nanosecond laser pulse. The duration of the luminescence is of the order of seconds. Despite on the other phenomena, which were considered in these papers, below we focus our attention on possible explanation of long time emission from nonlinear photonic crystal. The basis of our consideration is papers [3, 4], those deal with soliton formation in several layers of 1D nonlinear photonic crystal. Because of this, the light wave can exist in photonic crystal a long time (in ideal case—infinite time interval). Taking into account a relation between soliton duration and its maximum intensity, the leaving of laser energy from the layer of photonic crystal takes place due not full reflection from boundaries of layer. The time of light emission for this case depends on nonlinear susceptibility of photonic crystal and the intensity of laser pulse. Hence, soliton formation inside the nonlinear elements of photonic crystal can be one of the reasons of long time emission. We got in computer simulation a long time emission of 1D (layered) and 2D (circular or rectangular elements) nonlinear photonic crystal under the action of laser pulse with femtosecond duration under the conditions of soliton formation in some elements of photonic crystal. Input intensity of laser pulse, at which a soliton appears in nonlinear photonic crystal, can be ten times less due to effects of enhancement of optical intensity in periodic structure [4, 5].     

Optical transmission spectra in symmetrical Fibonacci photonic multilayers

We study the transmission properties of light through the symmetric Fibonacci photonic multilayers, i.e, a binary one-dimensional quasiperiodic structure, made up of both positive (SiO₂) and negative refractive index materials with a mirror symmetry. These spectra are calculated by using a theoretical model based on the transfer matrix approach for normal incidence geometry, in which many perfect transmission peaks (the transmission coefficients are equal to the unity) are numerically obtained. Besides, the transmission coefficient exhibits a six-cycle self-similar behavior with respect to the generation number of the Fibonacci sequence.