Novel slow light waveguide with controllable delay-bandwidth product and utra-low dispersion.
We demonstrate a novel type of slow light photonic crystal waveguide which can produce unusual "U" type group index - frequency curves with constant group index n(g) over large bandwidth. By shifting the boundaries of this waveguide, flexible control of n(g) (10 <n(g)< 210) with large bandwidth (1nm<Deltalambda<43nm centered at 1550nm) and normalized Delay-Bandwidth Product (0.1363<DBP<0.3143) are achieved. Additionally, depending on the chosen waveguide geometry, extremely low group velocity dispersion (GVD<0.5 ps x nm(-1) x mm(-1)), with controllable group velocity dispersion of both signs is obtained.
Hao
Ran
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Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China.
Cassan
Eric
E
Kurt
Hamza
H
Le Roux
Xavier
X
Marris-Morini
Delphine
D
Vivien
Laurent
L
Wu
Huaming
H
Zhou
Zhiping
Z
Zhang
Xinliang
X
D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D008027:Light; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012542:Scattering, Radiation