Single-mode propagation of light in one-dimensional all-dielectric light-guiding systems

Details Single-mode propagation of light in one-dimensional all-dielectric light-guiding systems Single-mode propagation of light in one-dimensional all-dielectric light-guiding systems

2010-07-17

arxiv.org/abs/1007.2898v1

Progress In Electromagnetics Research B 19, pp. 65-93, 2010

Physics

General Physics

13 pages, 8 figures, 32 references

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Numerical results are presented for single-mode guidance, which is based on photonic band gap (PBG) effect, in one-dimensional planar all-dielectric light-guiding systems. In such systems there may be two kinds of light-speed point (the intersection of a mode-dispersion curve and the light line of guiding region ambient medium): one is the intrinsic light-speed point that is independent of the guiding region width, and the other is the movable light-speed point that varies with the guiding region width. It is found that the intrinsic light-speed point plays an important role to form the single-mode regime by destroying the coexistence of the lowest guided TM and TE modes that are born with a degeneration point. A sufficient and necessary condition for intrinsic light-speed points is given. The transverse resonance condition is derived in the Maxwell optics frame, and it is shown that there is a significant revision to the traditional one in the ray optics model. A mode-lost phenomenon is exposed and this phenomenon suggests a way of how to identify PBG-guided fundamental modes. Quasi-cutoff-free index-guided modes in the PBG guiding structures, which appear when the higher-index layers are adjacent to the guiding region and the guiding region width is small, are exposed and analyzed as well.

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