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Tunable Slow Light with Large Bandwidth and Low-dispersion in Photonic Crystal Waveguide Infiltrated with Magnetic Fluids

Journal of Magnetics, Volume 20, Number 2, 30 Jun 2015, Pages 110-113
Weizheng Lei (College of Science, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology), Shengli Pu * (College of Science, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology)
Abstract

Two kinds of magnetic fluids with different volume fractions are symmetrically filled into the W0.9 photonic
crystal waveguide structure. The 2D plane-wave expansion method is used to investigate the slow light
properties numerically. The constant group index criterion is employed to evaluate the slow light performance. The wavelength bandwidth Δλ centering at λ0 = 1550 nm varies from 32.4 to 44.2 nm when the magnetic field factor α|| changes from 0 to 1. And the corresponding normalized delay bandwidth product can be tuned from 0.221 to 0.258. For comparison and optimization, two infiltration cases are investigated and the more advantageous infiltration scheme is found.

 

Keywords: photonic crystal waveguides; slow light; tunability; magnetic fluid
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4283/JMAG.2015.20.2.110
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