Quasi‐Blackbody, Bidirectional Super Reflection, and New Total Reflection Produced by Periodic Optical Waveguide Networks Based on Three‐Order PT‐Symmetric Substructures

Abstract

In this paper, six kinds of periodic optical waveguide networks are designed to study the influence of three-order parity-time-symmetric (PT-symmetric) substructures on the singular optical characteristics. It is found that different characteristics correspond to different PT-symmetric substructures, and new singular optical characteristics are produced by adjusting the PT-symmetric substructures. This work demonstrates that these six kinds of systems can create novel quasi-blackbody, super reflection, and new total reflection, which are significantly different from the corresponding traditional properties and have not been reported yet. These findings may deepen the understanding of PT-symmetric optical systems and optical waveguide networks, and these new characteristics may possess potential applications in the design of multifunctional optical structures with efficient information processing.