一维光子晶体结构参数的随机扰动对其光学特性的影响

用特征矩阵法研究结构参数存在随机扰动的情况下一维光子晶体的光学特性, 无论是加工过程中介质层几何厚度的误差, 还是介质层折射率的随机波动都会影响一维光子晶体的光学特性.随机扰动对一维光子晶体带结构高频部分影响较大, 造成带结构消失, 甚至全部变成禁带; 随机扰动对光子晶体缺陷模式的影响是使缺陷模的位置发生随机平移, 平移的程度与随机度有关, 介质层折射率的随机变化要比介质层厚度的随机变化对缺陷模位置的影响要大; 周期数目的增加可以部分地减小缺陷模的平移, 但同时会使缺陷模透射率减小,增加缺陷层厚度可以有效降低随机扰动对光子晶体缺陷模式的影响. 本文的研究将对一维光子晶体的设计工作提供有价值的参考.     

Tunable Optofluidic Polymer Photonic Liquid Crystal Fibers

New trends are presented in optofluidics based on microstructured photonic crystal fibers filled with liquid crystals. It significantly enhanced optical properties of the fibers and introduced new levels of tunability to photonic crystal fibers. The paper discusses basic research directions in fiber-based optofluidics and, in particular, in polycarbonate-based photonic liquid crystal fibers. Experimental and theoretical results are presented on polymer crystal fibers filled with nematic liquid crystal with two different types of dielectric anisotropies.     

Fabrication and optical properties of two‐dimensional photonic crystal of ZnO pillars

Two‐dimensional (2D) photonic crystal of ZnO pillars was synthesized on silicon substrate by the combination of template method and vapor‐phase transport method. The microstructure and morphology of the ZnO photonic crystal was evaluated by using scanning electron microscope (SEM) and X‐ray diffraction (XRD). Large‐area specular reflectance measurements showed the presence of photonic stop band. The effect of the photonic band gap and the special structure on the photoluminescence (PL) properties of ZnO photonic crystal has been investigated. Both suppression and enhancement in the PL were observed. Raman scattering analyses demonstrated that the defect of ZnO photonic crystal exists in this experiment. (© 2010 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Dielectric Multilayer Including Azobenzene Polymer Liquid Crystal with Non-quarter-wave Stack

Dielectric multilayer including azobenzene polymer liquid crystal acts as a one-dimensional photonic crystal and has optical-switchable reflection bands. The reflection intensity can be controlled by irradiation of ultraviolet (UV) or visible light, in which the optical switch is based on cis-trans photoisomerization. An increase in the number of layers prevents photoresponse in the multilayer including azobenzen layers because UV or visible light for control cis-trans isomerization hardly reach the bottom of the multilayer due to exponential decay of light intensity. In this study, the multilayer consisting of thin azobenzene layers is investigated. According to numerical calculations, the non-quarter-wave structured multilayer has multiwavelength reflection band. Angular dependence of reflection color from multiwavelength stopband is also studied using the XYZ color space. The non-quarter-wave multilayer suppresses reflection color change compared with conventional quarter-wave multilayer.     

Investigation of optical band gap in potassium acid phthalate single crystal

Optical absorption in photonic crystals of potassium acid phthalate has been measured at room temperature, from which the band gap has been determined and the optical band gap was calculated by using absorption spectrum. The analysis of absorption coefficient in the absorption region reveals a direct band gap of 3.70 eV. Further this study includes the theoretical calculations to determine the optical constant of the material and a technique for photonic band gap tuning which is minimally required to develop the optoelectronic device. It was confirmed that potassium acid phthalate crystal has maximum transparency in the entire visible region and hence it exhibits industrial application oriented properties. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Enhanced light extraction in Er3+ doped SiO2–TiO2 microcavity embedded in one-dimensional photonic crystal

Erbium doped silica–titania one-dimensional photonic crystal microcavities have been analyzed by solving the erbium rate equations and the Maxwell equations by means of an auxiliary differential equation finite difference time domain technique. The interaction time between light and matter is enhanced by the presence of microcavity, used to localize the light inside the PC and allows to achieve a significant gain. The investigation treats the influence of the pump signal power, the device length and the dopant concentration, on the optical amplification in correspondence of the defect resonance. A comparison between the erbium doped photonic crystal microcavities and erbium doped photonic crystal band edge amplifiers is reported as well, which shows a higher compactness of the erbium doped photonic crystal microcavities respect with the erbium doped photonic crystals.     

含左手材料的——维“啁啾”光子晶体的偏振特性

把“啁啾”函数引入含左手材料的一维光子晶体中,且左手材料的介电常数和磁导率采用Lossy Dryde model,利用传输矩阵法研究了其透射谱.结果表明:在“啁啾”函数对材料几何厚度调制较小时,该光子晶体有完整的禁带,随着调制的加强,禁带宽度增加,但底部逐步抬高.在相同的调制下,磁、电等离子体频率的比值越大,禁带宽度越宽.入射角增加,TE模的禁带宽度不变而TM模的禁带宽度变窄,TE模和TM模均产生了角度隙,此角度隙的宽度随入射角增加而变宽,且TM模的变化大于TE模的.周期数N变化时,角度隙基本不变.nR的变化对禁带和角度隙的位置没有影响,但nR越小,禁带底部越高且圆,角度隙中透射峰峰值越大.     

Microscopic modeling of the optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures

A brief overview of a consistent microscopic approach to model the optical and electronic properties of semiconductor nanostructures is presented. Coupled semiconductor Bloch and Maxwell equations are used to investigate the performance of semiconductor microcavity structures, photonic band gap systems, and lasers. The predictive potential of the microscopic theory is demonstrated for several examples of practical importance. Optical gain and output characteristics are computed for modern vertical external cavity surface emitting laser structures. It is shown how design flexibilities can be used to optimize the device performance. Nanostructures are proposed where semiconductor quantum wells are embedded in one-dimensional photonic crystals. For field modes spectrally below the photonic band edge it is shown that the optical gain and absorption can be enhanced by more than one order of magnitude over the value of the homogeneous medium. The increased gain can be used for laser action by placing quantum wells and a suitably designed photonic crystal structure inside a microcavity.     

光在介电常数正弦调制的一维光子晶体中的传输

本文用平面波展开法和时域有限差分法研究了光在介电常数受正弦函数调制的一维光子晶体传输规律,发现该光子晶体同样具有一般光子晶体的带隙结构.带隙宽度随调制深度的增加而增加,随周期长度的增加而减小.还用时域有限差分法计算得到源频率分别在禁带和通带时电场在介质中的分布,禁带情况下电场在介质中受到抑制,通带情况下不受抑制.说明不论介质的介电常数如何分布,只要满足周期性的条件,介质都会具有一般光子晶体共有的本质特征.     

A new method of modeling cladding band structure of air-guiding photonic crystal fibers

Cladding band structure of air-guiding photonic crystal fibers with high air-filling fraction is calculated in terms of fiber shape variation. The fundamental photonic band gap dependence on structure parameters, air-filling fraction and spacing, is also investigated. The numerical results show that the band gap edges shift toward longer wavelength as the air-filling fraction is increased, whereas the relative band gap width increases linearly. For a fixed air-filling fraction, the band gap edges with respect to spacing keep constant. With this method, the simulation results agree well with the reported data.     

Development of Personal UV Biodosimeter Based on Vitamin D Photosynthesis

Abstract

A new approach to monitoring of vitamin D synthetic capacity of UV solar/artificial radiation is described. Nematic liquid crystal (LC) was converted into cholesteric phase by chiral dopant of 7-dehydrocholesterol (provitamin D₃), and the effects of UV irradiation were studied using spectral and polarized observations. Significant changes in optical characteristics of the LC films depending on UV exposure were observed as a result of UV initiated photoisomerization that changed helical twisting power of dopant molecules.     

掺杂光子晶体光纤的缺陷模增益谱与光孤子拉曼放大研究

本文研究在层状结构光子晶体光纤中引入多个缺陷区,制作出多芯的光子晶体光纤,在光子晶体光纤中增加的多个线缺陷形成波分复用技术的多个传输信道,在此基础上数值模拟研究在缺陷介质中掺入和未掺入激活杂质,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现象与光子带隙内群速度异常和掺杂层复有效折射率负的虚部之间的内在规律,进一步研究发现在光子晶体光纤的各个线缺陷中掺入拉曼增益介质,得到光子晶体光纤拉曼放大规律.由于光子晶体光纤的各个信道间存在带隙,使得信道间信号串扰必然受到抑制,利用这些特性可以设计分布式高增益、极低噪声、宽带和有利于光集成的新型光子晶体光纤拉曼放大器,将它用于密集波分复用(DWDM)光通信系统.     

Nd3+∶YCa4O(BO3)3单晶的坩埚下降法生长与光谱性能

Nd3+:YCOB单晶是在激光调制技术上具有重要应用价值的自倍频光学材料.采用高温固相反应合成Nd3+∶YCOB多晶粉体,再通过垂直区熔处理制备出高纯度Nd3+∶YCOB晶粒料,采用坩埚下降法生长出1mol;、2mol;和5mo1; Nd3+掺杂比例的系列Nd3+∶ YCOB单晶.测试表征了所生长单晶试样的光谱性能,包括吸收光谱、荧光光谱和荧光衰减时间.在808 nm红外光源激发下,Nd3+∶YCOB单晶显示出中心波长1064 nm的强荧光发射,其荧光寿命为157～162μs,证实1064 nm强荧光发射随Nd3+掺杂浓度加大而明显增强.     

Topological Soft Matter for Optics and Photonics

Liquid crystal colloids are interesting for a variety of mechanisms—including self-assembly, optical-tweezers assisted assembly, topology, and material flow—that can be used to create various complex optical and photonic structures. Here, we present a brief overview of liquid crystal colloidal structures, as recently achieved by numerical modeling and experiments. Central to the structures are complex conformations of topological defects, as they can bind, stabilize, or distort the structure. Using topological and geometrical arguments, we show that the defects can be controllably rewired and imprinted, for example by using optical tweezers. We show that 3D colloidal crystals can be assembled from elastic dipoles of spherical beads in nematic liquid crystals or via inherently inhomogeneous order profiles in bulk and confined cholesteric blue phases. Colloidal crystals are generalized to close-packed colloidal lattices, which we show can serve as natural templates for defect networks. Finally, photonic bands are calculated for selected structures and possible defects in the structure are discussed.     

Reflection image enhancement for photonic crystal devices by using dielectrics

Abstract

We investigated the optical properties of photonic crystal devices (PCDs) using dielectrics. Different dielectrics were injected into a cell gap of the PCDs as a swelling solvent. It is evident that the PCDs reflected a deep blue color when two different materials, chiral ionic liquid (CIL) and photosensitive small molecules, were introduced. To compare the reflection images according to the different dielectrics, a well-known ionic liquid (IL) was used as a control sample. A thinner polymer layer induced a shorter wavelength, which created a strong blue shift phenomenon with a larger refraction index and a larger dielectric constant. In this paper, we obtained 12?nm of reflection enhancement with an applied voltage of 2V using an IL and a deep-blue color image by using the effects of the molecular structure of the CIL and photosensitive materials.     

h-BN型超晶格等离子体光子晶体能带特性研究

六方氮化硼(h-BN)晶格结构是一种类六方对称复式超晶格结构。具有h-BN晶格构型的光子晶体以其宽光子带隙特点受到国内外学者的广泛关注。本文利用不同尺度低压气体放电管与Al₂O₃介质棒周期性排列,构建了新型h-BN型超晶格等离子体光子晶体,实现其空间结构和等离子体参数的动态调控。利用微波透射谱对比研究了h-BN型超晶格与简单三角晶格等离子体光子晶体禁带位置、宽度和数目。分析了放电电流、介质棒阵列数对不同频段光子带隙的影响,以及电磁波入射角度对电磁传输特性的影响。结果表明：等离子体的引入不仅能够形成新的光子带隙,而且可以选择性地使部分禁带位置发生移动;相对于简单三角晶格,h-BN型超晶格等离子体光子晶体呈现出更多光子带隙;Al₂O₃介质棒阵列数对等离子体光子晶体禁带位置、宽度和数目均具有重要影响。电磁波入射角度变化越大,电磁传输特性差别越显著,透射谱相关性越差。本文所设计的新型h-BN型超晶格等离子体光子晶体为制作可调谐光子晶体提供了新的思路,在微波和太赫兹波控制领域具有潜在应用价值。     

Liquid Crystals and Polymer-Based Photonic Crystal Fibers

Experimental results of polymer photonic liquid crystal fibers based on commercially available (Kiriama) PMMA and cyclo-olefin polymer (Zeonex 480R) microstructured polymer fibers infiltrated with nematic liquid crystals (2CHBT/8CHBT and PCB) are presented and thermally-tuned photonic band-gap propagation mechanism is observed. These preliminary results suggest, that polymers binding to liquid crystals much easier than silica, can offer new opportunities while using polymer-based photonic crystal fibers.     

Fe3+对KDP晶体生长影响的研究

金属离子对KDP晶体的影响是多方面的.本文采用不同的过饱和度,在不同的Fe3+掺杂浓度的生长溶液中生长KDP晶体,定量地研究了Fe3+对KDP晶体生长的影响.实验发现,无论是在高过饱和度还是在低过饱和度下生长KDP晶体,在一定的浓度范围内,Fe3+的掺入既可以增加生长溶液的稳定性,又可以有效抑制晶体柱面的扩展,而且晶体基本不楔化,同时,对晶体光学性能的影响也不大.     

Photonic Heterostructures with Properties of Ferroelectrics and Light Polarizers

The optical and electro-optical properties of a new type of photonic heterostructure composed of alternating ferroelectric molecular layers and optically anisotropic layers of another material are considered. A numerical simulation of the real prototype of this heterostructure, which can be prepared by the Langmuir—Blodgett method from layers of a ferroelectric copolymer (polyvinylidene fluoride trifluoroethylene) and an azo dye with photoinduced optical anisotropy, has been performed. It is shown that this heterostructure has pronounced polarization optical properties and yields a significant change in the polarization state of light at the photonic band edges in the ranges of the maximum density of photon states. The latter property can be used to obtain an enhanced electro-optic effect at small spectral shifts of the photonic band (the latter can be provided by the piezoelectric effect in ferroelectric layers).     

反蛋白石结构光子晶体制备技术

光子晶体是一种具有光子带隙的新型材料,由于其可以控制和抑制光子运动的特性,在光通讯领域具有广阔的应用前景.反蛋白石结构是光子晶体一种重要的结构,由于其制备方法简便、成本低廉而受到人们的普遍关注.本文在介绍目前常用的几种制备光子晶体技术的基础上,详细阐述了制备反蛋白石结构光子晶体的各种技术和方法、以及利用这些制备技术和方法在反蛋白石结构光子晶体上制备一维和二维缺陷的最新进展.