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Title

Photonic bandgap properties of void-based body-centered-cubic photonic crystals in polymer

Author(s)

Zhou, Guangyong;  Ventura, Michael J.;  Gu, Min;  Matthews, Aaron F.;  Kivshar, Yuri S.

Abstract

We report on the fabrication and characterization of void-based body-centered-cubic (bcc) photonic crystals in a solidified transparent polymer by the use of a femtosecond laser-driven microexplosion method. The change in the refractive index in the region surrounding the void dots that form the bcc structures is verified by presenting confocal microscope images, and the bandgap properties are characterized by using a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer. The effect of the angle of incidence on the photonic bandgaps is also studied. We observe multiple stop gaps with a suppression rate of the main gap of 47% for a bcc structure with a lattice constant of 2.77 μm, where the first and second stop gaps are located at 3.7 μm and 2.2 μm, respectively. We also present a theoretical approach to characterize the refractive index of the material for calculating the bandgap spectra, and confirm that the wavelengths of the observed bandgaps are in good correlation with the analytical predictions.

Publication type

Journal article

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences. Centre for Micro-Photonics

Source

Optics Express, Vol. 13, no. 12 (2005), pp. 4390-4395

Publication year

2005

FOR Code(s)

0205 Optical Physics

Publisher

Optical Society of America

ISSN

1094-4087

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/opex.13.004390

Copyright

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