Light exiting from real photonic band gap crystals is diffuse and strongly directional

Koenderink, A. Femius and Vos, Willem L. (2003) Light exiting from real photonic band gap crystals is diffuse and strongly directional. Physical Review Letters, 91 (21). p. 213902. ISSN 0031-9007

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Abstract:	Any photonic crystal is in practice periodic with some inevitable fabricational imperfections. We have measured angle-resolved transmission of photons that are multiply scattered by this disorder in strongly photonic crystals. Peculiar non-Lambertian distributions occur as a function of frequency: due to internal diffraction, wide angular ranges of strongly reduced diffuse transmission coincide with photonic stop bands, while enhancements occur for directions outside stop gaps. We quantitatively explain the experiment with a model incorporating diffusion and band structure on equal footing. We predict that in the event of a photonic band gap, diffuse light at frequencies near band gap edges can exit only along isolated directions. Angle-resolved diffuse transmission appears to be the photonic equivalent of angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2003 The American Physical Society
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Complex Photonic Systems (CoPS)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/40627
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.213902
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