Unidirectional edge mode of photonic crystal slab formed by gyromagnetic material columns

Rong-qiang PU; Hong-ying YU; Ke-xin LIU

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1007-5461.2013.02.014

[1] Yablonovitch E. Inhibited spontaneous emission in solid-state physics and electronics ［J］. Phys. Rev. Lett., 1987, 58(20): 2059-2062.

[2] John S. Strong localization of photons in certain disordered dielectric superlattices ［J］. Phys. Rev. Lett., 1987, 58(23): 2486-2489.

[6] Haldane F D M, Raghu S. Possible realization of directional optical waveguides in photonic crystals with broken time-reversal symmetry ［J］. Phys. Rev. Lett., 2008, 100(1): 013904.

[7] Prange R E, Girvin S M. The Quantum Hall Effect ［M］. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1987.

[8] Wang Z, Chong Y D, Joannopoulos J D, et al. Reflection-free one-way edge modes in a gyromagnetic photonic crystal ［J］. Phys. Rev. Lett., 2008, 100(1): 013905.

[9] Ao X, Lin Z, Chan C T. One-way edge mode in a magneto-optical honeycomb photonic crystal ［J］. Phys. Rev. B, 2009, 80(3): 033105.

[10] Wang Z, Chong Y D, Joannopoulos J D, et al. Observation of unidirectional backscattering-immune topological electromagnetic states ［J］. Nature, 2009, 461: 772-776.

[11] Fu J X, Liu R J, Li Z Y. Robust one-way modes in gyromagnetic photonic crystal waveguides with different interfaces ［J］. Appl. Phys. Lett., 2010, 97(4): 041112.

[12] Poo Y, Wu R X, Lin Z F, et al. Experimental realization of self-guiding unidirectional electromagnetic edge states ［J］. Phys. Rev. Lett., 2011, 10(9): 093903.

[13] He C, Chen X L, et al. Tunable one-way cross-waveguide splitter based on gyromagnetic photonic crystal ［J］. Appl. Phys. Lett., 2010, 9(11): 111111.

[14] Wang Z Y, Shen L F, Zhang X M, et al. Photonic crystal cavity with one-way rotating state and its coupling with photonic crystal waveguide ［J］. J. Appl. Phys., 2011, 100(4): 043106.

[15] Liu K X, Shen L F, Zheng X D, et al. Interaction between two one-way waveguides ［J］. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 2012, 48(8): 1059-1064.

[16] Liu K X, Shen L F, He S. One-way edge mode in a gyromagnetic photonic crystal slab ［J］. Optics Letters, 2012, 37(19): 4110-4112.

[17] Joannopoulos J D, Meade R D, Winn J N. Photonic Crystals: Molding the Flow of Light (2nd ed.) ［M］. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.

[18] Johnson S G, Fan S, Villeneuve P R, et al. Guided modes in photonic-crystal slabs ［J］. Phys. Rev. B, 1999, 60(8): 5751-5758.

[19] Pozar D M. Microwave Engineering ［M］. New York: Wiley, 1998.

[20] Weiland T. A discretization method for the solution of Maxwell’s equations for six-component fields ［J］. Electron. and Commun. AEU, 1977, 31: 116-120.