Photonic band structure of multilayer photonic crystals

Author

Ajam, H. ; Shahabadi, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Tehran Univ., Iran

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

19-23 Sept. 2005

Firstpage

105

Abstract

A rigorous computational method has been proposed for calculation of the photonic-band structure of multilayer one-dimensional photonic crystals (MLPCs). With the help of this method, the full wave analysis of the structure can be reduced to the analysis of an equivalent multiconductor transmission line. In this work, we present an analytical characteristic equation for the evaluation of the band-structure of MLPCs. The approach which is based on an equivalent matrix formulation of Maxwell´s equations also characterizes guided modes of MLPCs.

Keywords

Maxwell equations; optical multilayers; photonic crystals; transmission line matrix methods; MLPC; Maxwell equations; computational method; equivalent matrix formulation; equivalent multiconductor transmission line; full wave analysis; multilayer photonic crystals; photonic band structure; Dielectrics; Electromagnetic waveguides; Finite difference methods; Maxwell equations; Multiconductor transmission lines; Periodic structures; Permittivity; Photonic crystals; Slabs; Transmission line matrix methods;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Infrared and Millimeter Waves and 13th International Conference on Terahertz Electronics, 2005. IRMMW-THz 2005. The Joint 30th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9348-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIMW.2005.1572429

Filename

1572429