Design and analysis of 1D photonic crystal doped with magnetized cold plasma defect for application of single/multi-channel tunable narrowband filter

Abstract

The present research demonstrates the tunable filtering properties of a single/multi-channel filter based on 1D photonic crystal (PhC), which is designed with dielectric materials (A, B) and magnetized cold plasma (P). The proposed filter has a configuration of A/BMA/P/BN(A/B)MTransmission spectra of the structure is investigated for both right-hand polarization and left-hand polarization configurations of the plasma material by employing the well-known transfer matrix method. It is found that number of period of the plasma layer (N) decides the single-channel and multi-channel operation of the filter. It is revealed that the external magnetic field can be manipulated to tune the frequency of the filter. Also, it is found that the geometrical parameters such as thickness of the plasma layer, plasma density, and incident angle play a significant role in tuning the defect mode frequency. Moreover, the color map plot is studied to provide a clear insight of shifting nature of the defect mode frequency. Quality factor of the filter is evaluated vis-à-vis different geometrical parameters. Our considered structure can be the mainstay for filtering applications in microwave regions, and can find suitable applications in dense wavelength division multiplexing and high speed signal processing.

Large omnidirectional mid-infrared photonic bandgap in a one-dimensional ternary photonic crystal consisting of isotropic dielectric, elliptical metamaterial and plasma

“…By tuning the geometric parameters of PhCs, the wavelength ranges of PBGs can be flexibly controlled [4]. By virtue of their prohibition property for light propagation, PBGs have been widely utilized to design various optical devices, such as lasers [5,6], fibers [7,8], absorbers [9][10][11][12][13][14], filters [15][16][17][18][19], sensors [20][21][22][23][24], polarization selectors [25,26], electro-optical encoders [27], optical decoders [28], all-optical flip-flops [29], and multiplexers [30,31]. Omnidirectional photonic bandgaps (OPBGs) represent the intersections of wavelength ranges of PBGs at all the incident angles [32].…”