Caspian Journal of Engineering Modern Technologies

Caspian Journal of Engineering Modern Technologies

Analysis and Design of Photonic Band Gap Devices: A Review

Document Type : Review Paper

Authors
1 Institute of Intelligent Industrial Technologies and Systems for Advanced Manufacturing (STIIMA), National Research Council of Italy, 70125, Bari, Italy
2 Electronic Devices Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Polytechnic University of Bari, 70126, Bari, Italy
Abstract
Photonic BandGap (PBG) crystals are able to overcome the typical integration limits of traditional optical circuits, allowing a scale of integration similar to the electronic ULSI. According to their geometrical characteristics, photonic crystals inhibit the light propagation in one or more directions, depending on the working frequency: if so, a band gap exists, i.e. a frequency range in which the wave cannot propagate.  Moreover, the introduction of defects inside the periodical structure of a photonic crystal determines the forming of photonic states located in the gap. In this paper, after a brief description of operation principle of photonic crystals, we present a review of the most important photonic crystals devices, describing, in particular, the main steps required to model and design resonant cavities and particle accelerators.
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