Effect of a photonic band gap on scattering from waveguide disorder
- 3 May 2004
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 84 (18) , 3639-3641
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1723686
Abstract
We derive a general, analytical, coupled-mode theory for disorder-induced scattering in periodic systems that shows that in the experimentally relevant limit of weak disorder, the reflection in a photonic-crystal waveguide is just as low as in a comparable index-guided waveguide. Moreover, since the photonic band gap also blocks radiative loss, the total scattering loss is reduced, and the total transmission is higher. These general results are verified by direct numerical simulations in an example system.Keywords
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