The stability of polarisation singularities in disordered photonic crystal waveguides

Autor:	Lang, Ben, Beggs, Daryl M., Young, Andrew B., Rarity, John G., Oulton, Ruth
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Physics - Optics
Zdroj:	Physical Review A 92, 063819 (2015)
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevA.92.063819
Popis:	The effects of short range disorder on the polarisation characteristics of light in photonic crystal waveguides were investigated using finite difference time domain simulations with a view to investigating the stability of polarisation singularities. It was found that points of local circular polarisation (C-points) and contours of linear polarisation (L-lines) continued to appear even in the presence of high levels of disorder, and that they remained close to their positions in the ordered crystal. These results are a promising indication that devices exploiting polarisation in these structures are viable given current fabrication standards. Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, supplementary attached with 7 pages and 5 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.08159 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv