Title :
On the design of highly dispersive photonic crystal waveguides for optical delay lines
Author :
Hosseini, Amir ; Kwong, David N. ; Liu, YaZhao ; Chen, Ray T.
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
Abstract :
We present a design methodology for optimized highly dispersive photonic crystal waveguide delay lines. The results indicate that higher group-indices lower the total propagation loss as long as perturbative backscattering is the dominant loss mechanism.
Keywords :
backscatter; energy gap; optical delay lines; optical design techniques; optical dispersion; optical fabrication; optical losses; optical tuning; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; band engineering; design methodology; input-output adiabatic group index reduction; optical delay lines; perturbative backscattering; total propagation loss; tunable highly dispersive photonic crystal waveguide; Backscatter; Delay lines; Design methodology; Design optimization; Dispersion; Optical design; Optical losses; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals; Propagation losses;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Society Winter Topicals Meeting Series (WTM), 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Majorca
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5240-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5241-5
DOI :
10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421932
