title: Intersection of nonidentical optical waveguides based on photonic crystals.
abstract: An intersection based on photonic crystal coupled resonator optical waveguides is proposed and analyzed. The two waveguides are designed to have different transmission bands without overlap, which enables light in the two corresponding bands to propagate through the intersection with no cross talk and with excellent transmission. The MIT Photonic-Bands code is used to calculate the band structures of photonic crystal waveguides. The finite-difference time-domain method is used to simulate the relevant structures.
authors.affiliation: Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA. tliu@optics.arizona.edu
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Mahmoud
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fallahi
authors.forename: Masud
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mansuripur
authors.forename: Armis R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Zakharian
authors.forename: Jerome V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Moloney