Superlattice for photonic band gap opening in monolayers of dielectric spheres

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 6668-6674

  Vynck, Kevin ^a   Cassagne, David ^a   Centeno, Emmanuel ^a  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; ENERGY GAP; MONOLAYERS; PHOTONS; TELECOMMUNICATION;

DIELECTRIC SPHERES; NANOPHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONIC BAND GAPS; SUPERLATTICE MONOLAYERS;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 33746369714     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.006668     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. E. Yablonovitch, "Inhibited Spontaneous Emission in Solid-State Physics and Electronics," Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 2059 (1987).
2. S. John, "Strong Localization of photons in certain disordered dielectric superlattices," Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 2486 (1987).
3. J.D. Joannopoulos, R.D. Meade, and J.N. Winn, Photonic Crystals, Molding the Flow of Light (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1995).
4. Photonic Band Gap Materials, edited by C.M. Soukoulis (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1996).
5. V.N. Bogomolov, S.V. Gaponenko, I.N. Germanenko, A.M. Kapitonov, E.P. Petrov, N.V. Gaponenko, A.V. Prokofiev, A.N. Ponyavina, N.I. Silvanovich, and S.M. Samoilovich, "Photonic band gap phenomenon and optical properties of artificial opals," Phys. Rev. E 55, 7619 (1997).
6. J. Wijnhoven, and W.L. Vos, "Preparation of Photonic Crystals made of air spheres in Titania," Science 281, 802 (1998).
7. A. Blanco, E. Chomski, S. Grabtchak, M. Ibisate, S. John, S.W. Leonard, C. Lopez, F. Meseguer, H. Miguez, J.P. Mondla, G. A. Ozin, O.Toader, and H.M. van Driel, "Large-scale synthesis of a silicon photonic crystal with a complete three-dimensional bandgap near 1.5 micrometres," Nature 405, 437 (2000).
8. A.Y. Vlasov, X.-Z. Bo, J.C. Sturm, and D.J. Norris, "On-chip natural assembly of silicon photonic bandgap crystals," Nature 414, 289 (2001).
9. C. López, "Materials Aspects of Photonic Crystals," Adv. Mater 15, 1679 (2003).
10. H.T. Miyazaki, H. Miyazaki, K. Ohtaka, and T. Sato, "Photonic band in two-dimensional lattices of micrometer-sized spheres mechanically arranged under a scanning electron microscope," J. Appl. Phys. 87, 7152 (2000).
11. A. Reynolds, F. López-Tejeira, D. Cassagne, F.J. Garcia-Vidal, C. Jouanin, and J. Sánchez-Dehesa, "Spectral properties of opal-based photonic crystals having a SiO2 matrix," Phys. Rev. B 60, 011422 (1999).
12. X. Jiang., T. Herricks, and Y. Xia, "Monodispersed spherical colloids of titania: Synthesis, characterization, and crystallization," Adv. Mater. 15, 1205 (2003).
13. E. Mine, M. Hirose, D. Nagao, Y. Kobayashi, and M. Konno, "Synthesis of submicrometer-sized titania spherical particles with a sol-gel method and their application to colloidal photonic crystals," J. Colloid Interface Sci. 291, 162 (2005).
14. S. Yano, Y. Segawa, J.S. Bae, K. Mizuno, S. Yamaguchi, and K. Ohtaka, "Optical properties of monolayer lattice ad three-dimensional photonic crystals using dielectric spheres," Phys. Rev. B 66, 075119 (2002).
15. P. Massé, S. Reculusa, K. Clays, and S. Ravaine, "Tailoring planar defects in three-dimensional colloidal crystals," Chem. Phys. Lett. 422, 251 (2006).
16. F. Jonsson, C.M. Sotomayor Torres, J. Seekamp, M. Schniedergers, A. Tiedemann, J. Ye, and R. Zentel, "Artificially inscribed defects in opal photonic crystals," Microelectron. Eng. 48, 78 (2005).
17. W. Cai, and R. Piestun, "Patterning of silica microsphere monolayers with focused femtosecond laser pulses," Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 111112 (2006).
18. S.G. Johnson, and J.D. Joannopoulos, "Block-iterative frequency-domain methods for Maxwell's equations in a planewave basis," Opt. Express 8, 173 (2001).
19. D. Cassagne, C. Jouanin, and D. Bertho, "Hexagonal photonic band gaps," Phys. Rev. B 53, 7134 (1996).
20. S.G. Johnson, P.R. Villeneuve, S. Fan, and J.D. Joannopoulos, "Linear waveguides in photonic-crystal slabs," Phys. Rev. B 62, 8212 (2000).