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View SchemaOptical extinction due to intrinsic structural variations of photonic crystals
| Authors | A. Femius Koenderink, Ad Lagendijk, Willem L. Vos |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0406052 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0406052 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevB.72.153102 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. B 72, 153102 (2005) (4 pages) |
Abstract
Unavoidable variations in size and position of the building blocks of photonic crystals cause light scattering and extinction of coherent beams. We present a new model for both 2 and 3-dimensional photonic crystals that relates the extinction length to the magnitude of the variations. The predicted lengths agree well with our new experiments on high-quality opals and inverse opals, and with literature data analyzed by us. As a result, control over photons is limited to distances up to 50 lattice parameters ($\sim 15 \mu$m) in state-of-the-art structures, thereby impeding large-scale applications such as integrated circuits. Conversely, scattering in photonic crystals may lead to novel physics such as Anderson localization and non-classical diffusion.
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