Optical generation in an amplifying photonic crystal with an embedded nanocomposite polarizer

We show the possibility of selective polarization generation in an amplifying photonic crystal structure via the use of an embedded film of a sub-wavelength thickness with uniformly oriented metallic elongated nanoparticles chaotically distributed in the volume of a semiconductor. Such nanocomposite polarizer presents a uniaxial crystal with different values of dielectric permittivity components along and perpendicular to the polar axis of the nanoparticles. Dispersion of the dielectric permittivity of the nanocomposite is defined by the concentration and shape factor of the nanoparticles. Wavelength dependence of imaginary part of the nanocomposite permittivity possesses a resonance behavior resulting from plasmon resonance in nanoparticles. We show that this allows, depending on the relative orientation of the nanocomposite anisotropy axis and the polarization direction of the light, to achieve the mode discrimination of the photonic structure in the vicinity of a resonance of one of the permittivity components, where the absorption of the nanocomposite layer is maximal. Also we vary the parameters of the nanocomposite polarizer to obtain the optimal conditions of optical generation at the given wavelength.