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Photonic crystal waveguide intersection based on self-imaging of multi-mode interference

  • Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

A new mechanism of intersection formed by two line defect photonic crystal (PC) waveguides are numerically investigated using the finite-difference time-domain method. The results show that the normalized crosstalk is smaller than 10-4; the reflection is smaller than 10-3, and the transmission is larger than 0.999. The authors analyse the physical origins and find that a modified self-imaging process in the intersected multi-mode region is the main reason of the excellent performance. This kind of multi-mode interference based intersection may find potential applications in PC optical circuits.

Original languageEnglish
Article number035
Pages (from-to)127-130
Number of pages4
JournalChinese Physics Letters
Volume24
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2007

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