Enhancement of self-collimated fields in photonic crystals consisting of two kinds of single-negative materials

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 14311-14318

  Wang, Zi Li ^a,b   Jiang, Hai Tao ^a,b   Li, Yun Hui ^a,b   Chen, Hong ^a,b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Tongji University   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

DIELECTRIC PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; ID PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; NEAR FIELDS; NEGATIVE INDEX MATERIAL; SELF-COLLIMATION; SINGLE-NEGATIVE MATERIALS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 78651262280     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.014311     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. H. Kosaka, T. Kawashima, A. Tomita, M. Notomi, T. Tamamura, T. Sato, and S. Kawakami, "Self-collimating phenomena in photonic crystals," Appl. Phys. Lett. 74(9), 1212 (1999).
2. D. N. Chigrin, S. Enoch, C. Sotomayor Torres, and G. Tayeb, "Self-guiding in two-dimensional photonic crystals," Opt. Express 11(10), 1203-1211 (2003).
3. C. Y, Luo, S. G. Johnson, J. D. Joannopoulos, and J. B. Pendry, "Subwavelength imaging in photonic crystals," Phys. Rev. B 68(4), 045115 (2003).
4. Z. Y. Li, and L. L. Lin, "Evaluation of lensing in photonic crystal slabs exhibiting negative refraction," Phys. Rev. B 68(24), 245110 (2003).
5. P. A. Belov, C. R. Simovski, and P. Ikonen, "Canalization of subwavelength images by electromagnetic crystals," Phys. Rev. B 71(19), 193105 (2005).
6. P. T. Rakich, M. S. Dahlem, S. Tandon, M. Ibanescu, M. Soljacic, G. S. Petrich, J. D. Joannopoulos, L. A. Kolodziejski, and E. P. Ippen, "Achieving centimetre-scale supercollimation in a large-area two-dimensional photonic crystal," Nat. Mater. 5(2), 93-96 (2006).
7. R. E. Hamam, M. Ibanescu, S. G. Johnson, J. D. Joannopoulos, and M. Soljacic, "Broadband super-collimation in a hybrid photonic crystal structure," Opt. Express 17(10), 8109-8118 (2009).
8. Z. L. Lu, S. Y. Shi, J. A. Murakowski, G. J. Schneider, C. A. Schuetz, and D. W. Prather, "Experimental demonstration of self-collimation inside a three-dimensional photonic crystal," Phys. Rev. Lett. 96(17), 173902 (2006).
9. X. F. Yu, and S. H. Fan, "Bends and splitters for self-collimated beams in photonic crystals," Appl. Phys. Lett. 83(16), 3251 (2003).
10. M.-W. Kim, S.-G. Lee, T.-T. Kim, J.-E. Kim, H. Y. Park, and C.-S. Kee, "Experimental demonstration of bending and splitting of self-collimated beams in two-dimensional photonic crystals," Appl. Phys. Lett. 90(11), 113121 (2007).
11. B. L. Miao, C. H. Chen, S. Y. Shi, and D. W. Prather, "A high-efficiency in-plane splitting coupler for planar photonic crystal self-collimation devices," IEEE Photon, Technol. Lett. 17(1), 61-63 (2005).
12. D. Y. Zhao, J. Zhang, P. J. Yao, X. Y. Jiang, and X. Y. Chen, "Photonic crystal Mach-Zehnder interferometer based on self-collimation, " Appl, Phys. Lett. 90(23), 231114 (2007).
13. J. B. Pendry, "Negative refraction makes a perfect lens," Phys. Rev. Lett. 85(18), 3966-3969 (2000).
14. R. A. Shelby, D. R. Smith, and S. Schultz, "Experimental verification of a negative index of refraction," Science 292(5514), 77-79 (2001).
15. J. B. Pendry, A. J. Holden, W. J. Stewart, and I. Youngs I, "Extremely low frequency plasmons in metallic mesostructures," Phys. Rev. Lett. 76(25), 4773-4776 (1996).
16. J. B. Pendry, A. J. Holden, D. J. Robbins, and W. J. Stewart, "Magnetism from conductors and enhanced nonlinear phenomena," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech. 47(11), 2075-2084 (1999).
17. A. N. Grigorenko, A. K. Geim, H. F. Gleeson, Y. Zhang, A. A. Firsov, I. Y. Khrushchev, and J. Petrovic, "Nanofabricated media with negative permeability at visible frequencies," Nature 438(7066), 335-338 (2005).
18. V. Mocella, S. Cabrini, A. S. Chang, P. Dardano, L. Moretti, I. Rendina, D. Olynick, B. Harteneck, and S. Dhuey, "Self-collimation of light over millimeter-scale distance in a quasi-zero-average-index metamaterial," Phys. Rev. Lett. 102(13), 133902 (2009).
19. K. J. Webb, and M. C. Yang, "Generation and control of optical vortices using left-handed materials," Phys. Rev. E Stat. Nonlin. Soft Matter Phys. 74(1), 016601. (2006).
20. J. Li, L. Zhou, C. T. Chan, and P. Sheng, "Photonic band gap from a stack of positive and negative index materials," Phys. Rev. Lett. 90(8), 083901 (2003).
21. H. T. Jiang, H. Chen, H. Q, Li, Y. W. Zhang, J. Zi, and S. Y. Zhu, "Properties of one-dimensional photonic crystals containing single-negative materials," Phys. Rev. E Stat. Nonlin. Soft Matter Phys. 69(6), 066607 (2004).
22. A. Alu, and N. Engheta, "Pairing an epsilon-negative slab with a mu-negative slab: resonance, tunneling and transparency," IEEE Trans. Antenn. Propag. 51(10), 2558-2571 (2003).
23. C. M. Rappaport, and B. J. McCartin, "FDFD analysis of electromagnetic scattering in anisotropic media using unconstrained triangular meshes," IEEE Trans. Antenn. Propag. 39(3), 345-349 (1991).
24. J. L. Zhang, H. T. Jiang, W. D. Shen, X. Liu, Y. Y. Li, and P. F. Gu, "Omnidirectional transmission bands of one-dimensional metal-dielectric periodic structures," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 25(9), 1474 (2008).
25. S. Zouhdi, A. V. Dorofeenko, A. M. Merzlikin, and A. P. Vinogradov, "Theory of zero-width band gap effect in photonic crystals made of metamaterials," Phys. Rev. B 75(3), 035125 (2007).
26. J. A. Kong, B. L. Wu, and Y. Zhang, "Lateral displacement of a Gaussian, beam reflected from, a grounded slab with negative permittivity and permeability," Appl. Phys. Lett. 80(12), 2084 (2002).
27. J. Zhang, H. Jiang, B. Gralak, S. Enoch, G. Tayeb, and M. Lequime, "Compensation, of loss to approach -1 effective index by gain in metal-dielectric stacks," Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys. 46(3), 32603 (2009).
28. Y. Sivan, S. M. Xiao, U. K. Chettiar, A. V. Kildishev, and V. M. Shalaev, "Frequency-domain simulations of a negative-index material with embedded gain," Opt. Express 17(26), 24060-24074 (2009).
29. Z. G. Dong, H. Liu, T. Li, Z. H. Zhu, S. M. Wang, J. X. Cao, S. N. Zhu, and X. Zhang, "Optical, loss compensation in a bulk left-handed metamaterial by the gain in quantum dots," Appl. Phys. Lett. 96(4), 044104 (2010).