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Observation of Brillouin zone folding in photonic crystal slab waveguides possessing a superlattice pattern

2007; American Institute of Physics; Volume: 90; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1063/1.2431447

1520-8842

Curtis W. Neff, Tsuyoshi Yamashita, Christopher J. Summers,

Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research

The optical properties of superlattice photonic crystal (PC) patterns in two-dimensional slab waveguides were investigated using coupled-resonance angular dependent reflectivity measurements. Additional features were found in the superlattice PC spectra in comparison to that of the triangular lattice, indicating Brillouin zone folding (BZF) due to the larger unit cell and reduced symmetry of the superlattice. Calculated band structures corroborate these measurements and confirm the BZF effect which was shown to extract portions of the triangular lattice guided bands into the waveguide radiating regime, making the dielectric bands excitable by an out-of-plane source.