A Bloch modal approach for engineering waveguide and cavity modes in two-dimensional photonic crystals

Jakob Rosenkrantz de Lasson; Philip Trøst Kristensen; Jesper Mørk; Niels Gregersen

doi:10.1117/12.2051885

2 May 2014 A Bloch modal approach for engineering waveguide and cavity modes in two-dimensional photonic crystals

Jakob Rosenkrantz de Lasson, Philip Trøst Kristensen, Jesper Mørk, Niels Gregersen

Proceedings Volume 9127, Photonic Crystal Materials and Devices XI; 91270F (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2051885
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2014, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

In open nanophotonic structures, the natural modes are so-called quasi-normal modes satisfying an outgoing wave boundary condition. We present a new scheme based on a modal expansion technique, a scattering matrix approach and Bloch modes of periodic structures for determining these quasi-normal modes. As opposed to spatial discretization methods like the finite-difference time-domain method and the finite element method, the present approach satisfies automatically the outgoing wave boundary condition in the propagation direction which represents a significant advantage of our new method. The scheme uses no external excitation and determines the quasi-normal modes as unity eigenvalues of the cavity roundtrip matrix. We demonstrate the method and the quasi-normal modes for two types of two-dimensional photonic crystal structures, and discuss the quasi-normal mode field distributions and Q-factors in relation to the transmission spectra of these structures.

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Jakob Rosenkrantz de Lasson, Philip Trøst Kristensen, Jesper Mørk, and Niels Gregersen "A Bloch modal approach for engineering waveguide and cavity modes in two-dimensional photonic crystals", Proc. SPIE 9127, Photonic Crystal Materials and Devices XI, 91270F (2 May 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2051885

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