Waveguide sub‐wavelength structures: a review of principles and applications

R Halir, PJ Bock, P Cheben… - Laser & Photonics …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Periodic structures with a sub‐wavelength pitch have been known since Hertz conducted his
first experiments on the polarization of electromagnetic waves. While the use of these …

MEEP: A flexible free-software package for electromagnetic simulations by the FDTD method

AF Oskooi, D Roundy, M Ibanescu, P Bermel… - Computer Physics …, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper describes Meep, a popular free implementation of the finite-difference time-
domain (FDTD) method for simulating electromagnetism. In particular, we focus on aspects …

Photonic crystals

JD Joannopoulos, PR Villeneuve, S Fan - Solid State Communications, 1997 - Elsevier
A new class of composite materials has emerged which provides a means to control and
manipulate light. These materials, known as photonic crystals, are periodic arrays of …

Photonic crystal stimuli-responsive chromatic sensors: a short review

A Chiappini, LTN Tran, PM Trejo-García, L Zur… - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Photonic crystals (PhC) are spatially ordered structures with lattice parameters comparable
to the wavelength of propagating light. Their geometrical and refractive index features lead …

Negative refractive index materials

V Veselago, L Braginsky, V Shklover… - … of Computational and …, 2006 - ingentaconnect.com
The main directions of studies of materials with negative index of refraction, also called left-
handed or metamaterials, are reviewed. First, the physics of the phenomenon of negative …

A compact high-performance decoder using the resonant cavities in photonic crystal structure

MJ Maleki, M Soroosh, G Akbarizadeh - Optical and Quantum Electronics, 2023 - Springer
In this study, a rod-type photonic crystal structure for decoding operation is presented.
Realizing nonlinear defects with different radii in resonant cavities makes changes in the …

Hybridization of surface plasmons and photonic crystal resonators for high-sensitivity and high-resolution sensing applications

L Hajshahvaladi, H Kaatuzian, M Moghaddasi… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
In this paper, an optical refractive index (RI) sensor based on a hybrid plasmonic-photonic
crystal (P-PhC) is designed. In the sensor's structure, some metallic rods are embedded in a …

A solution for detection of ethanol and methanol with overlapping refractive indexes based on photonic crystal ring resonator optical sensors

V Fallahi, Z Kordrostami, M Hosseini - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a selective and sensitive photonic crystal (PC) sensor is designed to detect two
types of alcohol, namely, ethanol and methanol, and to measure their concentration …

Terahertz air-core microstructure fiber

JY Lu, CP Yu, HC Chang, HW Chen, YT Li… - Applied Physics …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
A low-loss terahertz air-core microstructure fiber is demonstrated for terahertz waveguiding.
Substantially low attenuation constant less than 0.01 cm− 1 has been achieved and the …

Super-bound states in the continuum through merging in grating

E Bulgakov, G Shadrina, A Sadreev, K Pichugin - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We consider bound states in the continuum (BICs) in grating composed of infinitely long
silicon rods of rectangular cross-section. We reveal merging off-Γ Friedrich-Wintgen BIC with …