Optical extinction due to intrinsic structural variations of photonic crystals

Details Optical extinction due to intrinsic structural variations of photonic crystals Optical extinction due to intrinsic structural variations of photonic crystals

2004-06-11

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0406052v2

Phys. Rev. B 72, 153102 (2005) (4 pages)

Physics

Optics

10 pages, 3 figures. Changes include: added Lagendijk as author; simplified and generalized the text

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.72.153102

Unavoidable variations in size and position of the building blocks of photonic crystals cause light scattering and extinction of coherent beams. We present a new model for both 2 and 3-dimensional photonic crystals that relates the extinction length to the magnitude of the variations. The predicted lengths agree well with our new experiments on high-quality opals and inverse opals, and with literature data analyzed by us. As a result, control over photons is limited to distances up to 50 lattice parameters ($\sim 15 \mu$m) in state-of-the-art structures, thereby impeding large-scale applications such as integrated circuits. Conversely, scattering in photonic crystals may lead to novel physics such as Anderson localization and non-classical diffusion.

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