Expand this Topic clickable element to expand a topic
Skip to content
Optica Publishing Group

Optical surface edge Bloch modes: low-loss subwavelength-scale two-dimensional light localization

Not Accessible

Your library or personal account may give you access

Abstract

An optical surface edge Bloch mode is an optical state evanescently bound at an edge on a finite-size three-dimensional photonic crystal; the edge is the intersection of two termination planes on the crystal. Low-loss subwavelength-scale edge modes can appear on an 010 edge of a dielectric woodpile within a complete photonic bandgap. The mode area is as small as 0.066 squared half-in-vacuum-wavelengths. The edge mode has field maxima in vacuum near the termination surface, like surface plasmon modes. This edge mode would provide new opportunities of low-loss light localization in a sub-diffraction-limit space without the use of metal.

© 2012 Optical Society of America

Full Article  |  PDF Article
More Like This
Optical surface Bloch modes of complete photonic bandgap materials as a basis of optical sensing

Shu-Yu Su, Lingling Tang, and Tomoyuki Yoshie
Opt. Lett. 36(12) 2266-2268 (2011)

Slow light based on optical surface modes of two-dimensional photonic crystals

Hamza Kurt, Nur Erim, and Kadir Üstün
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 29(6) 1187-1193 (2012)

Cited By

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Cited by links are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Figures (3)

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Figure files are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Select as filters


Select Topics Cancel
© Copyright 2024 | Optica Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved