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Voltage-induced defect mode interaction in a one-dimensional photonic crystal with a twisted-nematic defect layer

Optics 2012-01-19 v1 Chemical Physics Computational Physics

Abstract

Defect modes are investigated in a band gap of an electrically tunable one-dimensional photonic crystal infiltrated with a twisted-nematic liquid crystal (1D PC/TN). Their frequency shift and interference under applied voltage are studied both experimentally and theoretically. We deal with the case where the defect layer thickness is much larger than the wavelength (Mauguin condition). It is shown theoretically that the defect modes could have a complex structure with the elliptic polarization. Two series of polarized modes interact with each other and exhibit an avoided crossing phenomenon in the case of opposite parity.

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@article{arxiv.1110.4725,
  title  = {Voltage-induced defect mode interaction in a one-dimensional photonic crystal with a twisted-nematic defect layer},
  author = {Ivan V. Timofeev and Yu-Ting Lin and Vladimir A. Gunyakov and Sergey A. Myslivets and Vasily G. Arkhipkin and Stepan Ya. Vetrov and Wei Lee and Victor Ya. Zyryanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.4725},
  year   = {2012}
}

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14 pages, 8 figures, sent to PRE