• DocumentCode
    2082797
  • Title

    Self-collimation and spatial filtering in 2D gain/loss periodic spatially modulated materials

  • Author

    Botey, Muriel ; Herrero, Ramon ; Kumar, Nikhil P. ; Vilaseca, Ramon ; Staliunas, Kestutis

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. de Fis. i Eng. Nucl., Univ. Politec. de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    22-26 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    1
  • Abstract
    We predict and demonstrate that the periodical modulation of the gain/loss profile on the wavelength scale in at least two dimensions of space can lead to interesting beam propagation effects, similar to self-collimation or subdiffractive propagation, but also to spatial beam filtering.
  • Keywords
    optical collimators; photonic crystals; refractive index; spatial filters; 2D gain/loss periodic spatially modulated materials; beam propagation effects; self-collimation; spatial beam filtering;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Munich
  • ISSN
    Pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0533-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    Pending
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943605
  • Filename
    5943605