Tunable photonic crystals enable new optical physics and devices

Shanhui Fan; Mehmet F Yanik; Won Joo Suh

doi:10.1117/12.558584

14 October 2004 Tunable photonic crystals enable new optical physics and devices

Shanhui Fan, Mehmet F Yanik, Won Joo Suh

Proceedings Volume 5511, Tuning the Optical Response of Photonic Bandgap Structures; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.558584
Event: Optical Science and Technology, the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, 2004, Denver, Colorado, United States

Abstract

We show that tunable photonic band gap materials offer new opportunities for device applications. Optical switches or sensors that are far more compact and sensitive, for instance, can be constructed when we introduce either optical or mechanical tunability into photonic crystal structures. Furthermore, when we tune the photonic crystal while a photon is inside the crystal, the crystal can exhibit qualitatively different optical physics effects. As a particularly exciting example, we show that light can in fact be completely stopped in a tunable photonic crystal, and the conventional delay bandwidth product limit in resonator optics can be completely overcome.

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Shanhui Fan, Mehmet F Yanik, and Won Joo Suh "Tunable photonic crystals enable new optical physics and devices", Proc. SPIE 5511, Tuning the Optical Response of Photonic Bandgap Structures, (14 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.558584

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