Title :
Centimeter-scale super-collimation in a large-area 2D photonic crystal
Author :
M. S. Dahlem;P. T. Rakich;S. N. Tandon;M. Ibanescu;M. Soljacic;G. S. Petrich;J. D. Joannopoulos;L. A. Kolodziejski;E. P. Ippen
Author_Institution :
Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, 02139, USA
fDate :
5/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We studied super-collimation in a planar 2D photonic crystal at 1.5 mum wavelengths and observed an inherent robustness to short-scale disorder. A 2 mum-wide beam was propagated over more than 0.5 cm without diffraction.
Keywords :
"Photonic crystals","Lattices","Optical beams","Optical diffraction","Photonics","Optical propagation","Distance measurement"
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
Electronic_ISBN :
2160-9004
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628033
