A compact sharp-edge wide bandpass near-infrared filter based on graded-index sinusoidally corrugated photonic crystal

In this study, a wide-bandpass near-infrared filter is devised based on a novel sinusoidally corrugated multilayer structure. The presented structure exhibits a wider bandpass and higher average transmission amplitude than the conventional triangular design. Cut-on frequency of the proposed bandpass filter can be tuned by the variation of horizontal lattice constant. Thus it can be applied as a tunable multichannel filter. Particle swarm optimization procedure was carried out to find the optimal arrangement of dielectric materials to eliminate the undesired fluctuations in the transmission spectrum at the beginning of the passband region. We compared the bandpass filtering behavior of the simple/graded sinusoidal photonic structures with and without anti-reflective double layer coating. Utilization of the optimized graded-index Quasi-periodic photonic crystal results in a sharper cut-on wavelength as well as flatter transmission spectrum than the application of the anti-reflective double-layer coating.