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Photonic crystal waveguides with semi-slow light and tailored dispersion properties

Year: 2006

Type: article

Abstract: We demonstrate a concept for tailoring the group velocity and dispersion properties for light propagating in a planar photonic crystal waveguide. By perturbing the holes adjacent to the waveguide core it is possible to increase the useful bandwidth below the light-line and obtain a photonic crystal waveguide with either vanishing, positive, or negative group velocity dispersion and semi-slow light. We realize experimentally a silicon-on-insulator photonic crystal waveguide having nearly constant group velocity ~c(0)/34 in an 11-nm bandwidth below the silica-line.

Source: Optics Express

DOI: 10.1364/oe.14.009444

Authors: Lars H. Frandsen, Andrei V. Lavrinenko, Jacob Fage-Pedersen, Peter I. Borel

Institution: Technical University of Denmark

Language: English

Topic: Photonic Crystals and Applications

Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,270

Funder: Teknologi og Produktion, Det Frie Forskningsråd