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Modeling And Simulation Of Tunable Photonic Crystals, Weiqing Yang
Modeling And Simulation Of Tunable Photonic Crystals, Weiqing Yang
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Photonic crystals (PhCs) have wavelength scale periodically alternating refractive indexes. Photon in such structures is subject to strong scattering, experiencing distinctive redistribution of energy, yielding interesting properties such as photonic band gaps, field enhancement, strong nonlinear optic effects and photon confinement. The modified fields also alter the propagation of light beams. By proper setup, super collimation could be realized in PhCs where beams can travel long distance without spreading, while no waveguide structure is used. Redirection of light can extend the refraction to negative range, without violating physics rules. This distinguished phenomenon has been envisioned as the core mechanism for …