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- Title
Optimal tunability of waveguides based on silicon photonic crystals infiltrated with liquid crystals.
- Authors
Cos, J.; Ferré-Borrull, J.; Pallarès, J.; Marsal, L.
- Abstract
In this work we study the optimization of the tunability range in waveguides based on two-dimensional silicon photonic crystal infiltrated with liquid crystal. The analyzed structure consists of a two-dimensional silicon photonic crystal with a triangular lattice of circular holes where a line of scatterers in the direction Γ-K has been replaced by a line of circular holes with different radius infiltrated by E7 liquid crystal. To this end, we use the plane-wave expansion method considering anisotropy and modelling supercells to account for the lattice defects that define the waveguide. Finally we study the field distributions of the guided modes in order to analyze their symmetries and confinement.
- Subjects
WAVEGUIDES; SILICON crystals; PHOTONICS; LIQUID crystals; ANISOTROPY; CHEMICAL structure; SYMMETRY (Physics)
- Publication
Optical & Quantum Electronics, 2011, Vol 42, Issue 8, p487
- ISSN
0306-8919
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11082-010-9430-y