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View SchemaGigantic transmission band edge resonance in periodic stacks of anisotropic layers
| Authors | Alex Figotin, Ilya Vitebskiy |
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| ArXiv ID | physics/0506174 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0506174 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.036619 |
Abstract
We consider Fabry-Perot cavity resonance in periodic stacks of anisotropic layers with misaligned in-plane anisotropy at the frequency close to a photonic band edge. We show that in-plane dielectric anisotropy can result in a dramatic increase in field intensity and group delay associated with the transmission resonance. The field enhancement appears to be proportional to forth degree of the number N of layers in the stack. By contrast, in common periodic stacks of isotropic layers, those effects are much weaker and proportional to N^2. Thus, the anisotropy allows to drastically reduce the size of the resonance cavity with similar performance. The key characteristic of the periodic arrays with the gigantic transmission resonance is that the dispersion curve omega(k)at the photonic band edge has the degenerate form Delta(omega) ~ Delta(k)^4, rather than the regular form Delta(omega) ~ Delta(k)^2. This can be realized in specially arranged stacks of misaligned anisotropic layers. The degenerate band edge cavity resonance with similar outstanding properties can also be realized in a waveguide environment, as well as in a linear array of coupled multimode resonators, provided that certain symmetry conditions are in place.
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"doi": "10.1103/PhysRevE.72.036619",
"title": "Gigantic transmission band edge resonance in periodic stacks of anisotropic layers",
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