• DocumentCode
    1372766
  • Title

    Design of photonic crystal optical waveguides with singlemode propagation in the photonic bandgap

  • Author

    Adibi, A. ; Lee, R.K. ; Xu, Y. ; Yariv, A. ; Scherer, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Appl. Phys., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
  • Volume
    36
  • Issue
    16
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    8/3/2000 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1376
  • Lastpage
    1378
  • Abstract
    The authors present a systematic method for designing dielectric-core photonic crystal optical waveguides that support only one mode in the photonic bandgap (PBG). It is shown that by changing the sizes of the air columns (without perturbing the positions of the centres of the air column) in the two rows that are adjacent to the middle slab, the higher order mode(s) can be pushed out of the photonic bandgap, resulting in singlemode wave propagation in the bandgap
  • Keywords
    optical design techniques; optical waveguide theory; optical waveguides; photonic band gap; air columns; dielectric-core photonic crystal optical waveguide design; higher order mode; middle slab; photonic bandgap; photonic crystal optical waveguide design; singlemode propagation; singlemode wave propagation; systematic method;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20000973
  • Filename
    862154