Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 5, Issue 12, 696(2007)

Study on optical gain of one-dimensional photonic crystals with active impurity

Zhenghua Li1,2,3、*, Tinggen Shen1,2,3, Xuehua Song2,4, Junfeng Ma2,4, Yong Sheng4, and Gang Wang4
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  • 1Telecommunication T/R Section, Zhenjiang Watercraft College, Zhenjiang 212003
  • 2Institute of Applied Physics, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013
  • 3Department of Electronic Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062
  • 4Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013
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    Localized fields in the defect mode of one-dimensional photonic crystals with active impurity are studied with the help of the theory of spontaneous emission from two-level atoms embedded in photonic crystals. Numerical simulations demonstrate that the enhancement of stimulated radiation, as well as the phenomena of transmissivity larger than unity and the abnormality of group velocity close to the edges of photonic band gap, are related to the negative imaginary part of the complex effective refractive index of doped layers. This means that the complex effective refractive index has a negative imaginary part, and that the impurity state with very high quality factor and great state density will occur in the photonic forbidden band if active impurity is introduced into the defect layer properly. Therefore, the spontaneous emission can be enhanced, the amplitude of stimulated emission will be very large and it occurs most probably close to the edges of photonic band gap with the fundamental reason, the group velocity close to the edges of band gap is very small or abnormal.

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    Zhenghua Li, Tinggen Shen, Xuehua Song, Junfeng Ma, Yong Sheng, Gang Wang. Study on optical gain of one-dimensional photonic crystals with active impurity[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2007, 5(12): 696

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    Received: Jul. 11, 2007

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Dec. 12, 2007

    The Author Email: Zhenghua Li (liharder@vip.163.com)

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