Title :
Design of photonic crystal optical waveguides with singlemode propagation in the photonic bandgap
Author :
Adibi, A. ; Lee, R.K. ; Xu, Y. ; Yariv, A. ; Scherer, A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Appl. Phys., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
fDate :
8/3/2000 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors present a systematic method for designing dielectric-core photonic crystal optical waveguides that support only one mode in the photonic bandgap (PBG). It is shown that by changing the sizes of the air columns (without perturbing the positions of the centres of the air column) in the two rows that are adjacent to the middle slab, the higher order mode(s) can be pushed out of the photonic bandgap, resulting in singlemode wave propagation in the bandgap
Keywords :
optical design techniques; optical waveguide theory; optical waveguides; photonic band gap; air columns; dielectric-core photonic crystal optical waveguide design; higher order mode; middle slab; photonic bandgap; photonic crystal optical waveguide design; singlemode propagation; singlemode wave propagation; systematic method;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20000973
