Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1543397 Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications 2009 7 Pages PDF
Abstract
We demonstrate extremely low transmittance characteristics of photonic crystals (PhCs) with a finite thickness in specific photonic bandgaps (PBGs) through numerical simulation, and clarify its origin. Some of the PhCs support decaying Bloch eigenmodes, whose propagation constant (real part of the Bloch wavenumber) as well as their decay constant (imaginary part) changes with frequency inside the bandgap. Such a class of modes can interfere destructively at the exit end of the crystal depending on their round-trip phase change, which creates comb-like valleys in their transmission spectra.
Related Topics
Physical Sciences and Engineering Materials Science Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Authors
, ,