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Dispersion Engineering of Photonic Crystal Devices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

David M. Pustai ,
Caihua Chen ,
Ahmed Sharkawy ,
Shouyuan Shi ,
Janusz Murakowski  and
Dennis W. Prather
David M. Pustai
Affiliation:
University of Delaware, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 140 Evans Hall, Newark, DE 19716
Caihua Chen
Affiliation:
University of Delaware, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 140 Evans Hall, Newark, DE 19716
Ahmed Sharkawy
Affiliation:
University of Delaware, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 140 Evans Hall, Newark, DE 19716
Shouyuan Shi
Affiliation:
University of Delaware, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 140 Evans Hall, Newark, DE 19716
Janusz Murakowski
Affiliation:
University of Delaware, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 140 Evans Hall, Newark, DE 19716
Dennis W. Prather
Affiliation:
University of Delaware, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 140 Evans Hall, Newark, DE 19716
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Abstract

We present and experimentally validate self-collimation in planar photonic crystals as a new means of achieving structureless confinement of light in optical devices. We demonstrate the ability to arbitrarily guide and route light by exploiting the dispersive characteristics of the photonic crystal. Propagation loss as low as 2.17 dB/mm is measured, and the experimental validation of routing structures are presented.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 797: Symposium W – Engineered Porosity for Microphotonics and Plasmonics , 2003 , W6.8
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2004

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