title: Dispersion-based optical routing in photonic crystals.
abstract: We present and experimentally validate self-collimation in planar photonic crystals as a new means of achieving structureless confinement of light in optical devices. We demonstrate the ability to arbitrarily route light by exploiting the dispersive characteristics of the photonic crystal. Propagation loss as low as 2.17 dB/mm is observed, and proposed applications of these devices are presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Delaware, 140 Evans Hall, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA. dprather@ee.udel.edu
authors.forename: Dennis W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Prather
authors.forename: Shouyuan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Pustai
authors.forename: Caihua
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Sriram
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Venkataraman
authors.forename: Ahmed
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sharkawy
authors.forename: Garrett J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: Janusz
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Murakowski