• DocumentCode
    1683446
  • Title

    Strain-induced band gap and effective magnetic field in photonic crystals

  • Author

    Rechtsman, Mikael C. ; Szameit, Alexander ; Segev, Mordechai

  • Author_Institution
    Solid State Inst., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We show that a certain inhomogeneous strain induces an effective magnetic field in photonic crystals that have Dirac points. The magnetic field induces highly degenerate Landau levels and band gaps in between them.
  • Keywords
    Brillouin zones; Landau levels; elemental semiconductors; energy gap; internal stresses; magnetic field effects; photonic crystals; silicon; Brillouin zone; Dirac points; Landau level; Si; effective magnetic field; high-contrast silicon phase; inhomogeneous strain-induced band gap; photonic crystals; Magnetic fields; Photonic band gap; Photonics; Scattering; Strain;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6326793