Couplonics Of Cyclic Ternary Systems: From Coupled Periodic Waveguides To Discrete Photonic Crystals

Yann Boucher (1, 2)

1 FOTON - Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON
2 ENIB - École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Brest

In the context of coupled periodic waveguides, " couplon-ics " refers to the rigorous equivalence between continuous wave coupling and localized interactions. We extend it here to a cyclic ternary system, looked upon as the simplest discrete photonic crystal with actual periodic boundary conditions. A linear decomposition on a supermode basis enables one to reduce the original six-wave problem to three independent two-wave distributed Bragg reflectors (or 1D PC).

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Yann Boucher. Couplonics Of Cyclic Ternary Systems: From Coupled Periodic Waveguides To Discrete Photonic Crystals. Advanced Electromagnetics, 2013, selected paper from "3rd International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META’12)", 2 (1), pp.55-58. ⟨10.7716/aem.v2i1.83⟩. ⟨hal-01157173⟩