Tunability of a double-cavity Fabry-PÃ©rot system based on 1D Photonic Crystals

Author

Cos, J. ; Ferré-Borrull, J. ; Pallarès, J. ; Marsal, L.F.

Author_Institution

Dept. d´´Eng. Electron., Electr. i Autom., Univ. Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona

fYear

2009

fDate

11-13 Feb. 2009

Firstpage

364

Lastpage

367

Abstract

In this work we present a theoretical study of a tunable double-cavity Fabry-Perot multilayer structure composed of porous silicon mirrors and liquid crystal cavities. We base our study on the anisotropic transfer matrix method. The structure possesses two resonant frequencies within the stop band with tunable wavelengths and transmission properties. Tuning is achieved by allowing different orientations of the liquid crystal optical axes within the cavities, while keeping the optical axes parallel to the layers.

Keywords

Fabry-Perot interferometers; anisotropic media; cavity resonator filters; elemental semiconductors; liquid crystal devices; mirrors; optical materials; optical multilayers; optical tuning; photonic crystals; porous semiconductors; silicon; transfer function matrices; 1-D photonic crystal; Si; anisotropic transfer matrix method; liquid crystal cavity; liquid crystal optical axes; porous silicon mirror; resonant frequency; tunable double-cavity Fabry-Perot multilayer structure; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Fabry-Perot; Geometrical optics; Liquid crystals; Mirrors; Nonhomogeneous media; Optical tuning; Photonic crystals; Resonant frequency; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electron Devices, 2009. CDE 2009. Spanish Conference on

Conference_Location

Santiago de Compostela

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2838-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2839-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCED.2009.4800508

Filename

4800508