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Negative refraction in 2D photonic crystal super‐lattice: towards devices in the IR and visible ranges
Author(s) -
NeveOz Y.,
Golosovsky M.,
Frenkel A.,
Davidov D.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
physica status solidi (a)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.532
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1862-6319
pISSN - 1862-6300
DOI - 10.1002/pssa.200776421
Subject(s) - stopband , photonic crystal , dielectric , optics , rod , negative refraction , superlattice , planar , lattice constant , materials science , microwave , photonics , optoelectronics , condensed matter physics , metamaterial , diffraction , physics , medicine , alternative medicine , computer graphics (images) , pathology , quantum mechanics , computer science , resonator
We consider a planar structure consisting of the periodic array of dielectric rods of two different diameters whereas d 1 / d 2 = 2. The rods have the same dielectric constant ε = 4. Such array exhibits structural modulation and forms a two‐dimensional photonic superlattice. This results in a narrow transmission subband (the bandwidth is 15% of the total stopband width) inside the photonic stop‐band. For the frequencies corresponding to this subband we find high transmittivity accompanied by negative refraction. Although we perform our computer simulations for the microwave range, the small dielectric constant of the rods and small insertion loss for the frequencies in the transmission band suggests that scaling to the optical range using similar structures is possible. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)