
A planar four-port channel drop filter in the
three-dimensional woodpile photonic crystal
Daniel Stieler,
1,*
Anthony Barsic,
1
Rana Biswas,
1,2
Gary Tuttle,
1
and Kai-Ming Ho
2
1Ames Laboratory and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Microelectronics Research Center,
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
2Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
* Corresponding author:
dstieler@gmail.com
Abstract: A compact planar channel four-port drop filter is developed
experimentally and theoretically in the three-dimensional woodpile photonic
crystal having a complete band gap. This consists of two waveguides
separated by a defect in a single layer of the photonic crystal. Frequencies
for channel dropping can be tuned throughout the band gap, by changing the
size of the defect. Quality factors of ~1000 were measured. Simulations
demonstrate directional energy transfer between the input and out put
waveguides, through excitation of fields in the defect region. The planar
nature of the filter is much more amenable to fabrication at optical length
wavelengths.
2009 Optical Society of America
OCIS codes: (230.3120) Integrated optics devices; (230.5750) Resonators
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#105683 - $15.00 USD Received 23 Dec 2008; revised 11 Feb 2009; accepted 12 Feb 2009; published 1 Apr 2009