Negative refractive optics in photonic crystals

Masaya Notomi

doi:10.1117/12.432609

9 July 2001 Negative refractive optics in photonic crystals

Masaya Notomi

Proceedings Volume 4283, Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices IX; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.432609
Event: Symposium on Integrated Optics, 2001, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

We demonstrate that light propagation in strongly-modulated 2D/3D PhCs becomes refraction-like in the vicinity of the photonic bandgap, which is contrary to the fact that light propagation in weakly-modulated photonic crystals is very different from refraction and thus the definition of refraction index becomes meaningless. Such a crystal behaves like a material having an effective refractive index controllable by the band structure. This situation is analogous to the effective-mass approximation in electron-band theory. The propagation states having a negative effective index exhibit unusual properties, such as mirror-like imaging effect, image-transfer effect. These properties are confirmed by finite-difference time domain simulations.

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Masaya Notomi "Negative refractive optics in photonic crystals", Proc. SPIE 4283, Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices IX, (9 July 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.432609

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