Title :
Experimental demonstration of guiding, bending, and filtering of electromagnetic wave in disordered photonic band gap materials
Author :
Man, Weining ; Florescu, Marian ; Hashemizad, Seyed ; He, Yingquan ; Leung, Brian ; Williamson, Eric ; Chaikin, Paul
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys. & Astron., San Francisco State Univ., San Francisco, CA, USA
Abstract :
We report the first experimental demonstration of guiding, bending, filtering, and splitting of EM wave in 2D disordered PBG materials, along arbitrarily curved paths, around sharp bends of arbitrary angles, and through Y shape junctions.
Keywords :
electromagnetic waves; photonic band gap; 2D disordered PBG materials; electromagnetic wave bending; electromagnetic wave filtering; electromagnetic wave guiding; photonic band gap materials; Educational institutions; Filtering; Junctions; Materials; Optical filters; Photonic band gap; Shape;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
