Effect of self-collimated beams on the operation of photonic crystal decoders

In this paper, a 1 × 2 optical decoder is proposed by employing the self-collimation effect in 2D photonic crystals. The total structure of the proposed device is a combination of so called "beam splitters." The simulation result indicates that this design can operate as a 1 × 2 optical de...

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Published inJournal of electromagnetic waves and applications Vol. 30; no. 11; pp. 1440 - 1448
Main Authors Alipour-Banaei, Hamed, Ghorbanzadeh Rabati, Mehdi, Abdollahzadeh-Badelbou, Parisa, Mehdizadeh, Farhad
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Taylor & Francis 23.07.2016
Subjects
optical beam
optical decoder
Photonic band gap
self-collimation
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Summary:In this paper, a 1 × 2 optical decoder is proposed by employing the self-collimation effect in 2D photonic crystals. The total structure of the proposed device is a combination of so called "beam splitters." The simulation result indicates that this design can operate as a 1 × 2 optical decoder. We employed finite-difference time-domain method and plane wave expansion for simulating the proposed structure.
ISSN:0920-5071
1569-3937
DOI:10.1080/09205071.2016.1202785