Broadband super-collimation with low-symmetric photonic crystal

We investigate dispersive properties of two dimensional photonic crystal (PC) called star-shaped PC (STAR-PC) in order to succeed super-collimation over a broad bandwidth. Both time- and frequency-domain numerical methods are conducted. Due to introduced low-symmetry in the primitive cell, flat contours are observed at the fifth band for transverse magnetic mode. The proposed structure supports a super-collimation effect over a broad wavelength range between 1443 nm and 1701 nm with a bandwidth of Δω = 16.42%. The intrinsic characteristic of STAR-PC provides in-plane beam propagation with a limited diffraction length of 120a, where a is the lattice constant. By means of STAR-PC, one may realize super-collimation based single-mode optical devices with a low insertion loss, reduced dispersion and wide bandwidth.

► Dispersive properties of two dimensional PC called star-shaped PC (STAR-PC) are investigated to succeed super-collimation over broad bandwidth.
► Applied method is based on engineering of the dispersion curves of low symmetric PC, which does not require any perturbation or nonlinearities.
► Due to introduced low-symmetry in the primitive cell, flat contours are observed at the fifth band for transverse magnetic mode.
► The proposed structure supports a super-collimation effect over a broad wavelength range between 1443 nm and 1701 nm with a bandwidth of Δω = 16.42%.
► By means of STAR-PC, one may realize super-collimation based optical devices with a low insertion loss, reduced dispersion and wide bandwidth.