Analysis of 3-D diffraction effects and oblique incidence in magnetooptic photonic bandgap structures

Author

Vukovic, Ana ; Sewell, Phillip ; Benson, Trevor M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Nottingham, UK

Volume

24

Issue

7

fYear

2006

fDate

7/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2946

Lastpage

2953

Abstract

Two practically important effects in magnetooptic photonic bandgap (MO PBG) structures are investigated for the first time, namely 1) oblique incidence and 2) diffractive effects caused by incident beams of finite width. A rigorous solution of the full three-dimensional wave equation in a MO medium is derived and used to evaluate the effect of beam spot size on the transmission properties of MO PBG structures. It is shown that the properties of MO PBG structures are highly sensitive to the angle of incidence and, furthermore, that in the case of a small beam size, plane-wave analysis significantly overestimates the transmission and isolation properties of MO PBGs.

Keywords

Faraday effect; light diffraction; optical multilayers; photonic band gap; 3-D diffraction effect; beam spot size; magnetooptic photonic bandgap structures; oblique incidence; plane-wave analysis; Coatings; Diffraction; Magnetic analysis; Magnetic materials; Magnetooptic effects; Optical films; Optical filters; Optical materials; Optical waveguides; Photonic band gap; Faraday effect; isolators; magnetooptic photonic bandgap (MO PBG) structures; multilayers; optical properties of thin films;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2006.875962

Filename

1650572