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- Title
The slow light in the closed-packed face-centered cubic photonic crystal: characteristics and application design.
- Authors
Li, Meng-Zhen; Li, Lan; Zhang, Xiao-Song; Xu, Jian-Ping
- Abstract
Using the plane wave expansion method, we calculated the energy band distribution of face-centered cubic (FCC) photonic crystals in the reciprocal lattice space. The influences of various dielectric constant materials on the properties of slow light are discussed. The results show that, in the close-packed hollow spherical FCC photonic crystal, the group velocity of light can be slow down to the velocity about $$10^{-4}c$$ . And the slow light effect tends to occur more strongly in the hollow spherical structure in comparison with the dielectric spherical structure. The possible applications of the slow light effect in the 3D photonic crystal are proposed for solar cells and optical communication devices.
- Subjects
PHOTONIC crystals; PLANE wavefronts; ENERGY bands; FACE centered cubic structure; LATTICE theory; DIELECTRICS; SOLAR cells; OPTICAL communications
- Publication
Optical & Quantum Electronics, 2013, Vol 45, Issue 10, p1107
- ISSN
0306-8919
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11082-013-9727-8