Abstract

Ultra-slow light and complete transmission properties in one-dimensional Cantor photonic crystals are presented. In contrast to traditional dielectric photonic crystals, the proposed structure has large group delay, slower group velocity, and a high quality factor within the same layers and materials. This study shows that larger than 1 μs group delay and slower than 1 m/s group velocity are achieved in the fifth-order Cantor photonic crystal with 52.75 μm length. This ultra-slow-light structure is very promising for application in advanced slow-light devices. A high quality factor of ${10}^9$ and multiband filters with complete transmission can also be obtained by using this approach.

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