Broad stopband characteristic of dielectric chiral photonic crystals

Zhong Yin Xiao; Zi Hua Wang; Wen Yun Luo

doi:10.1117/12.570352

31 January 2005 Broad stopband characteristic of dielectric chiral photonic crystals

Zhong Yin Xiao, Zi Hua Wang, Wen Yun Luo

Proceedings Volume 5624, Semiconductor and Organic Optoelectronic Materials and Devices; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.570352
Event: Asia-Pacific Optical Communications, 2004, Beijing, China

Abstract

In this paper, a novel chiral photonic crystal structure is presented. The formula of reflection coefficient of multi-layer chiral media is applied to dielectric-chiral photonic crystal structure, which is composed of thin chiral layers sandwiched by conventional media. To compare with previous literature, we consider the dielectric structure with alternate glass and GaAs layers. The power reflectance as a function of wavelength for this photonic crystal structure has been calculated. The results are in good agreement with that of Reference. However, our method is simpler. From these graphs, it is found that 100% reflectance is only in finite wavelength ranges, and reflection bandwidth is also small for conventional photonic crystal structure. For chiral photonic crystal, the results show that the chiral photonic band gap (PBG) structure gives nearly 100% reflections in the near-infrared region in addition to some parts of the visible region of the wavelengths. Therefore, it can be used as a broadband reflector and filter.

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Zhong Yin Xiao, Zi Hua Wang, and Wen Yun Luo "Broad stopband characteristic of dielectric chiral photonic crystals", Proc. SPIE 5624, Semiconductor and Organic Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, (31 January 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.570352

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