二维复式声子晶体中基元配置对声学能带结构的影响

研究了二维复式声子晶体中基元配置对其声学能带结构的影响,发现当声子晶体的基元配置改变时,声子晶体的不可约布里渊区也会改变,而且部分能带的极值不再在高对称线上.特别地,在某些基元配置下,不可约布里渊区扩大为整个第一布里渊区.因此,对于对称性较高的复式晶格声子晶体,可用通常的方法得到能带结构,而对于对称性较低的复式晶格结构声子晶体,只有采用对整个第一布里渊区进行研究的方法,才能获得可信的能带结构及带隙.     

二维单斜点阵光子晶体的第一布里渊区及带隙计算

二维单斜点阵光子晶体在光学聚焦器件及光子晶体波导中有重要的应用价值，详细讨论了二维单斜点阵光子晶体的第一布里渊区及带隙计算，并与常规方法计算得出的二维正三角形晶格光子晶体的带隙结构进行了比较.最后讨论了临界条件下二维单斜点阵光子晶体的带隙结构，证明了本方法的有效性.     

二维介电光子晶体中的赝自旋态与拓扑相变

基于背散射抑制且对缺陷免疫的传输性质,光子拓扑绝缘体为电磁传输调控提供了一种新颖的思路.类比电子体系中的量子自旋霍尔效应,本文设计出一种简单的二维介电光子晶体,以实现自旋依赖的光子拓扑边界态.该光子晶体是正三角环形硅柱子在空气中排列而成的蜂窝结构.将硅柱子绕各自中心旋转60°,可实现二重简并的偶极子态和四极子态之间的能带翻转.这两对二重简并态的平均能流密度围绕原胞中心的手性可充当赝自旋自由度,其点群对称性可用来构建赝时间反演对称.根据k·p微扰理论,给出了布里渊区中心附近的有效哈密顿量以及对应的自旋陈数,由此证实能带翻转的实质是拓扑相变.数值计算结果揭示,在拓扑非平庸和平庸的光子晶体分界面上可实现单向传输且对弯曲、空穴等缺陷免疫的拓扑边界态.本文中的光子晶体只由电介质材料组成并且晶格结构简单,实现拓扑相变时无需改变柱子的填充率或位置,只需转动一个角度.因此,这种结构在拓扑边界态的应用中更为有效.     

二维斜方晶格光子晶体的第一布里渊区分析

二维斜方晶格光子晶体在光学聚焦器件及光子晶体波导中有重要的应用价值。对二维斜方晶格的第一布里渊区进行研究发现,保持斜方晶格基矢模长比R不变,改变倾斜角θ,第一布里渊区形状将在矩形和平行六边形间交替变化,所需的倒格矢也相应地变化,利用倒格矢正交临界条件可以对第一布里渊区的形状和所需的倒格矢进行划分。最后,利用平面波展开法对一种斜方晶格光子晶体进行带隙计算,验证了这种划分的正确性。     

二维光子晶体能带结构温度特性研究

采用有限元法对二维光子晶体的能带特性进行了分析.当光子晶体所受的温度发生变化时,由于构成二维光子晶体介质的热光效应,引起介质的折射率变化,介质的热膨胀效应引起介质厚度发生变化,改变了光子晶体的晶格周期,使得光子晶体的能带结构发生变化.分析了温度变化对二维光子晶体的第一禁带和第二禁带结构特性的影响,各禁带的起始波长、截止...     

二维排列共振吸收介质的光学特性研究

从理论上提出了一种二维排列的共振吸收介质阵列，计算了介质阵列的透射、反射与吸收光谱，发现存在着类似一维主动光子晶体中的共振光子带隙，并且这种结构的布里渊区边界点与二维阵列中原子之间的频率共振是产生这种共振带隙的必要条件. 本文还进一步分析了光子带隙与结构参数、二维阵列中原子共振中心以及吸收线宽之间的依赖关系. 关键词： 二维共振吸收介质阵列 布里渊区 光子晶体     

类蜂窝状结构完全带隙二维光子晶体

通过在二维三角晶格中引入两个完全一样的介质圆柱构成了类蜂窝状结构光子晶体,并对其光子能带进行了频域计算。借助数值方法分析了介质柱位置改变对光子能带的影响,计算结果表明,这种类蜂窝状结构二维光子晶体可以产生很宽的带隙,而且在一定填充率下,可以通过调整介质柱的位置使完全光子带隙达到最大化。     

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     

对称性投影表示导致的布里渊克莱因瓶

固体材料中的传统能带理论是基于晶体空间群表示的理论。例如能带理论最基础的概念——布里渊区,是晶体平移群不可约表示的集合形成的空间。作为动量空间的基本单元,布里渊区的一个重要性质是它具有环面(torus)的拓扑类型。这一点对理解固体中的各种物理现象起着关键性的作用。例如,近年来所研究的各种拓扑物态本质上对应着定义在这个环面上的一些奇异结构。     

二维介质型光子晶体的直线法分析

运用直线法对二维介质型光子晶体的能带结构进行分析,给出直线法中关于二维介质型光子晶体的本征方程的建立过程.同时,对不同参数的光子晶体进行计算,计算结果通过时域有限差分算法(FDTD)及已发表的数据得到了验证,并考虑不同结构的光子晶体的TE波与TM波的带隙形成情况,可为二维介质型光子晶体的设计提供参考.     

Anisotropic photonic crystals: Generalized plane wave method and dispersion symmetry properties

This article presents a generalized vector plane wave expansion method, applicable to isotropic and anisotropic periodic dielectric media of arbitrary geometry and dimension. The influence of anisotropic material orientation on the symmetry properties of photonic crystal dispersion surface is discussed. It is shown that the overall Brillouin zone symmetry is formed by the intersection of the photonic crystal lattice symmetry and the symmetry determined by the anisotropic material orientation. This work explains how to define the irreducible Brillouin zone of a two-dimensional anisotropic photonic crystal and demonstrates that doing it correctly allows one to avoid erroneous results, when calculating band gap diagrams of anisotropic photonic crystals. With the help of the methods presented, the possibility of controlling the band gaps of anisotropic photonic crystals by means of external electric field is shown.     

Tunable reducibility of Brillouin zone and bandgap width in elliptical nanowire arrays

Rotating elliptical nanowire arrays as two-dimensional photonic crystals has been proposed and studied in this Letter. The analysis of the four lowest energy bands and the first bandgap width of some examples illustrates that the rotation and configuration of the primitive cell can have effects on the reducibility of the Brillouin zone.As the central element's orientation changes, the irreducible Brillouin zone could be expanded to the whole first Brillouin zone. Special attention has been paid to the nanowire arrays with adjacent elements perpendicular to each other, and the irreducible Brillouin zone unexpectedly retracted back to the 1/8 of the first Brillouin zone though the symmetry of elements is lower than that of the square lattice. Meanwhile, the first bandgap width of the perpendicular array can be adjusted by the rotation of each primitive element.     

Breaking bands degeneracy in two-dimensional hybrid triangular lattice phononic crystal: A theoretical and experimental study

Using symmetry reduction concept, the band gap properties of a two-dimensional hybrid triangular lattice phononic crystal were investigated both theoretically and experimentally. The band structure was calculated with the plane wave expansion (PWE) method. The results revealed that the band degeneracy at high symmetry point in the first Brillouin zone was lifted due to reducing symmetry, and hence a new low-frequency absolute band gap between the first and the second bands appeared. The measured transmission spectra were found to be in good agreement with the numerical results.     

Dynamical tunneling of counterpropagating beams mediated by an optical photonic lattice

In a numerical study, we demonstrate the dynamical tunneling (DT) of two counterpropagating (CP) mutually incoherent beams in a two-dimensional photonic lattice, recorded in a photorefractive (PR) crystal. The beams are launched head-on from the opposite faces of a PR crystal in which an optically induced two-dimensional photonic lattice is established. The DT is caused by the spontaneous symmetry breaking of CP beams, which is induced by the nonlinear interaction between the beams and is mediated by the lattice. To observe DT we found no need to introduce a specific external tilt potential, as is done in the conventional Zener tunneling; the tilting is provided by the repulsive interaction between the beams, which causes ejection of one beam from the launching region of the other. As the beams propagate, they move laterally in real time, causing the leakage of radiation from the first Brillouin zone to the second and higher zones. In the process the beams also tunnel from the first photonic band zone to the higher zones, which by definition is the DT.     

Analysis of tunable bandgaps in liquid crystal-infiltrated 2D silicon photonic crystals

We present a theoretical study on two-dimensional photonic crystals composed of silicon and the E7 liquid crystal. We analyze how the optical axis orientation of the liquid crystal influences the photonic bands and bandgaps, for the case when the Maxwell equations can be decoupled into the TE and TM modes. We consider two different structures, a triangular lattice of E7 liquid crystal cylinders in a silicon background and a triangular lattice of silicon cylinders in an E7 liquid crystal background. The effect of the liquid crystal anisotropy on the geometry of the irreducible Brillouin zone allows us to propose a simplified way to calculate the photonic bandgaps. Results show that the bandgap width and center frequency have a 60° periodicity for both structures. Using the plane-wave expansion method, we determined the maximum bandgap and the optimal radius of the cylinders for each structure. Finally, for the second structure, we propose an optical switch with a 50% duty cycle. These structures can be applied to design tunable photonic devices.     

Nonreciprocal photonic band structure of low-symmetry magnetic photonic crystals

We propose multicomponent magnetic photonic crystals as a basis component for nonreciprocal optical elements. It is shown that introduction of three or more components may provide violation of mirror reflection symmetry, which is a necessary condition for obtaining nonreciprocity in the dispersion of the structure's eigenmodes. Numerical simulations confirm that nonreciprocity indeed develops in the form of nonreciprocal photonic band structure of three-component low-symmetry photonic crystal. We find that symmetry constraints produce fine structure in the nonreciprocity at high-symmetry points of the Brillouin zone.     

Negative refractive behavior of a two-dimensional negative-index photonic crystals using a wave vector diagram method

We have theoretically studied the negative refractive behavior and the focusing effect in a two-dimensional square-lattice photonic crystal made of air rods in a dielectric background. Detailed explanations are given for the effect of the negative refraction, and the imaging of the plano-concave lens is shown by the use of a wave vector diagram formalism. The typical negative refractive behavior is demonstrated by considering the Bloch mode with the wave vector inside the first Brillouin zone, because only those wave vectors inside the first Brillouin zone of multiple Brillouin zones have a definite meaning. The single propagating beam is analyzed by the use of the wave vector diagram formalism following the folding of the wave vectors. Good-quality focusing of a plane wave can be realized by using a photonic crystal plano-concave lens, while a plane wave is formed by a point source placed at the focal point. Our results are in good agreement with the experimental ones shown for a negative-index plano-concave lens by Vodo et al. [Appl. Phys. Lett. 86 (2005) 201108]. Finally, we also have shown the focusing behavior of a plane wave and a Gaussian pulse by a plano-concave lens structure with high-index modulation instead of air in the concave region.     

低对称性光子晶体超宽带全角自准直传输的机理研究

提出了一种低对称性椭圆介质柱二维光子晶体结构, 利用平面波展开法研究了该结构在第一布里渊区的能带特性. 讨论了全角自准直效应的物理机制及椭圆柱结构参数对其带宽的影响, 明确给出了自准直传播模式的存在判据. 研究发现, 自准直模式几乎覆盖了TE偏振的整个第四能带, 而且该能带面上存在两个横跨第一布里渊区的超宽平坦区域. 时域有限差分法模拟结果表明, 利用超宽平坦区域的特性, 可同时实现带宽达187 nm (以1550 nm为中心波长)、准直入射角度几乎覆盖0°–90°的宽带全角自准直光传输.