Propagation of Waves in Optical and Photonic Media
Abstract
The most direct and immediate benefit to the Army from the research under the grant of this report, is the development of a fast, efficient numerical code for transmission computations in two dimensional photonic crystals with or without defects and with or without dielectric losses. The code has been used in joint work with H. Everitt (ARO and Duke, Physics) and his group who performed physical experiments towards the manufacture of a photonic crystal laser; the resonant frequencies and corresponding quality numbers computed by our code have provided crucial help to the experimental work and were in very good agreement with the experimental values. We have currently made the code available to Dr. Everitt and his group. It is being used by members of his lab. We are in the process of making minor changes in the code that will enable us to make it available to all the scientists in the Army who wish to use it. The work on transmission through a discrete periodic medium, raises the possibility of using photonic crystals in efficient Second Harmonic Generation. We believe that our continued research on the project will provide specific parameters that can be used in the fabrication of such a device by Army scientists.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA384347
Entities
People
- Stephanos Venakides
Organizations
- Duke University