Negative refractive index and anomalous dispersion

Media with negative index of refraction are discussed briefly within Sellmeier model. In particular, dispersion of light waves is found to be anomalous and the corresponding coefficient of material dispersion is found to be negative. In addition, the group index becomes negative.     

A flexible metamaterial with negative refractive index at visible wavelength

In this paper, we demonstrated a realization of a flexible metamaterial with negative refractive index operating at visible wavelength. With the help of Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method, we could establish design rules for the metamaterial and analyze the characteristics of it. To this end, the fishnet structure with the unit cell size 185 nm by 240 nm was fabricated. Due to the polymer dielectric spacer between the metal-layers, the metamaterial is freestanding without base substrate and additional backside etching process.     

负折射材料的非寻常折射

负折射材料是近年来研究人员关注的新型材料,与常规材料相比,它有许多非寻常的表现,特别是光的折射,用惠更斯原理解释了负折射材料的折射规律,并分析了负折射材料制作的一些常用光学元件与传统材料制作的相应光学元件的不同作用。     

Fano resonance and spectral compression in a ring resonator drop filter with feedback

We propose a ring resonator drop filter with feedback loop which can form the other ring cavity to produce an asymmetric Fano-resonance line shape and mode compression. By properly adjusting the feedback loop, the asymmetric line shapes of the transmission spectra can be controlled and selectively mode compression of the circuiting intensity in the feedback loop is achieved. Such characteristics are useful for applications in ring resonator-based photonic devices such as all-optical switches, sensors and intracavity frequency selection single-mode laser.     

Multiple slow light bands in photonic crystal coupled resonator optical waveguides constructed with a portion of photonic quasicrystals

Coupled resonator optical waveguides (CROWs) in complex two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystals (PCs) constructed with a portion of 12-fold photonic quasicrystals (PQs) are proposed. We show that enhanced transmission and slow light can be simultaneously achieved in such waveguides as well as general CROWs. Moreover, due to higher degree of flexibility and tunability of PQs for defect mode properties compared to conventional periodic PCs, multiple slow light bands can be flexibly obtained in CROWs constructed with complex 2D PCs. Our results may lead to the development of a variety of novel ultracompact devices for photonic integrated circuits.     

Group index and dispersion properties of photonic crystal waveguides with circular and square air-holes

The slow light and group velocity dispersion properties of 2D triangular lattice photonic crystal line defect waveguide (PCW) with square and circular air-holes are numerically investigated with the plane-wave expansion method. The simulation results show that the guided mode is impacted slightly by the cross section’s shape of the air-holes of the same filling ratio. Adjusting two rows of the inner-hole adjacent to the waveguide and modifying the waveguide width can bring in low-group velocity and low-dispersion (LVLD) region, in which the group index of the square holes can reach 210 which is far better than the circular-holes. At the same air-hole size and waveguide width, the PCW with the square holes can support higher bit rate of the signal up to 35 Gb/s. These results provide important theoretical basis for realizing of optical buffering and optical logic devices in all-optical network.     

真空腔测量空气折射率的方法及精度分析

空气折射率的测量及补偿效果在高精度激光干涉测量中起着“瓶颈”作用。分析了空气折射率的补偿原理 ,研究了用预抽气真空腔测量和补偿空气折射率的测量原理、方法及装置 ,分析了该方法对测量误差产生的原因。最后对测量精度作出了估计。     

利用单光束测量掺有叶绿素-α的有机聚合材料的光学非线性折射率

本文研究了利用单光束纵向扫描法测量介质的光学非线性折射率n_2中,介质的线性吸收对测量结果的影响,指出样品的吸收使得纵向扫描方法的测量范围减小,测量精度降低,在实验上,利用纵向扫描法测量了一种掺有叶绿素-α的有机聚合材料的非线性折射率,获得的n_2为3.4×10~(-9)esu,对实验结果的分析表明,材料的非线性折射来源于有机材料的共轭π电子效应.     

两端对称负折射率缺陷复合光子晶体:多通道滤波和光开关

采用传输矩阵法对两端对称负折射率缺陷复合光子晶体结构[D(AB)mD]N的透射特性进行了研究.结果表明:当N=2时,该结构透射谱的禁带出现两个完全共振透射峰,当N增加时,每个共振透射峰又分裂为N-1条;当复合光子晶体的层数m逐渐增加时,透射峰的品质因子逐渐提高,且分裂的共振透射峰距离逐渐减少;既为该结构实现高品质的多通...     

Numerical analysis of plasmon polarition refractive index fiber sensors with hollow core and a long period grating

The main principle of this design is based on the efficient energy transfer between the waveguide mode (WM) and the co-directional SPP provided by a properly designed fiber long period grating (LPG). This LPG is imprinted into a waveguide fiber layer of a specially designed hollow core optical fiber. The simulations are based on the finite element method (FEM) algorithm in electromagnetics and coupled mode theory for gratings. Compared to the previous proposed structure using a fiber Bragg grating (FBG), this novel kind of sensor can greatly enhance the refractive index sensitivity, e.g., from 5.93 nm/RIU (with FBG) to 817 nm/RIU (with LPG) at the sensing refractive index of 1.40. The other advantage is that the working conditions can be performed for the well-developed telecom wavelength windows 1500-1600 nm.