Designing for beam propagation in periodic and nonperiodic photonic nanostructures: extended Hamiltonian method

Author

Jiao, Yang ; Fan, Shanhui ; Miller, David A B

Author_Institution

Ginzton Lab., Stanford Univ., CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

27-28 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

1030

Abstract

In this work, we have demonstrated the use of Hamiltonian optics to design and analyze beam propagation in 2-D periodic and nonperiodic photonic nanostructures with slowly varying nonuniformities and also we have extended the Hamiltonian optics method to analyze the width of the beam propagating in these structures. We validated our method with finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulations, and designed a 2-D nonuniform structure that functions as a flat-top frequency demultiplexing device, which steers beams in two different frequency ranges to two different locations.

Keywords

beam steering; demultiplexing equipment; finite difference time-domain analysis; nanostructured materials; optical communication equipment; optical design techniques; photonic crystals; 2-D nonuniform structure design; FDTD simulation; beam propagation design; beam steering; extended Hamiltonian optics method; finite difference time domain analysis; flat-top frequency demultiplexing device; nonperiodic photonic nanostructure; periodic photonic nanostructure; Demultiplexing; Dispersion; Finite difference methods; Frequency; Lattices; Nanostructures; Optical beams; Optical distortion; Periodic structures; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2003. LEOS 2003. The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7888-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2003.1253160

Filename

1253160