• DocumentCode
    2888303
  • Title

    Nondiffractive propagation of light in photonic crystals

  • Author

    Staliunas, Kestutis ; Herrero, Ramon

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. de Fisica i Enginyeria Nucl., Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    12-17 June 2005
  • Firstpage
    331
  • Abstract
    It is shown in this letter that photonic crystals can modify the diffraction of the light in that the diffraction can vanish in propagation through particularly prepared photonic crystals. An analytical study of the propagation of the plane waves is performed, by expanding the electromagnetic field into a set of spatially harmonic (Bloch) modes. The nondiffractive propagation is checked by a direct numerical integration of wave equation.
  • Keywords
    light diffraction; light propagation; photonic crystals; Bloch modes; direct numerical integration; nondiffractive light propagation; photonic crystals; plane waves; spatially harmonic modes; Conducting materials; Crystalline materials; Electromagnetic diffraction; Electromagnetic propagation; Insulation; Optical modulation; Optical propagation; Optical refraction; Photonic band gap; Photonic crystals;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics Conference, 2005. EQEC '05. European
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8973-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EQEC.2005.1567497
  • Filename
    1567497