Title :
Fiber-pigtailed optical switch based on gigantic bloch-surface-wave-induced Goos-Hanchen shifts
Author :
Wan, Yuhang ; Kong, Weijing ; Zheng, Zheng ; Zhao, Xin ; Liu, Ya ; Bian, Yusheng
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Beihang Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
On-off optical switching based on the Bloch-surface-wave enhanced Goos-Hanchen effect is demonstrated for the first time by changing the medium in a flowcell that serves as the cladding of a truncated one-dimensional photonic crystal.
Keywords :
optical fibre cladding; optical switches; photonic crystals; Goos-Hanchen shifts; cladding; fiber-pigtailed optical switch; flowcell; gigantic bloch-surface-wave; on-off optical switching; truncated one-dimensional photonic crystal; Optical fibers; Optical reflection; Optical refraction; Optical surface waves; Optical switches; Optical variables control;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Burlingame, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0731-5
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358476
