Title :
Plane-wave transfer-matrix method and its application to photonic crystal devices
Author_Institution :
Lab. of Opt. Phys., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing
Abstract :
We introduce and discuss the principle of plane-wave transfer-matrix method and its application to photonic crystal integrated optical devices. After an extensive expansion and development of its power in the past 5 years, the method has been able to handle a great variety of optical problems in photonic crystal structures and devices. These include the solution of band diagrams of photonic crystals and bound states at the surface and interface, calculation of transmission, reflection, and absorption spectra for dielectric and metallic photonic crystals, treatment of Bloch mode scattering and coupling at photonic crystal surface and interface, coupling of guided mode into and out of photonic crystal waveguides, and transmission efficiency of guided mode through photonic crystal waveguide bends.
Keywords :
integrated optics; optical waveguides; photonic band gap; photonic crystals; transfer function matrices; waveguide discontinuities; Bloch mode coupling; Bloch mode scattering; absorption spectra; band diagrams; bound states; dielectric photonic crystals; metallic photonic crystals; photonic crystal integrated optical devices; photonic crystal interface; photonic crystal surface; photonic crystal waveguides; plane-wave transfer-matrix method; reflection spectra; transmission efficiency; transmission spectra; waveguide bends; Absorption; Couplings; Optical devices; Optical reflection; Optical scattering; Optical surface waves; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals; Surface treatment; Surface waves; Bloch mode scattering; photonic crystal; plane-wave transfer-matrix method; waveguide bend;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE/LEOS Winter Topicals Meeting Series, 2009
Conference_Location :
Innsbruck
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2610-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2611-9
DOI :
10.1109/LEOSWT.2009.4771626
