General methods for designing single-mode planar photonic crystal waveguides in hexagonal lattice structures

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2003-06Author
Wu, N.
Javanmard, M.
Momeni, Babak
Soltani, Mohammad
Adibi, Ali
Xu, Yong
Lee, Reginald K.
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We systematically investigate and compare general methods of designing single mode photonic crystal waveguides in a two-dimensional hexagonal lattice of air holes in a dielectric material. We apply the rather general methods to dielectric-core hexagonal lattice photonic crystals since they have not been widely explored before. We show that it is possible to obtain single mode guiding in a limited portion of the photonic bandgap of hexagonal lattice structures. We also compare the potentials of different photonic crystal lattices for designing single-mode waveguides and conclude that triangular lattice structures are the best choice.
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