Abstract
The effect of introduction a defect in a conventional one-dimensional photonic band gap (PBG) structure in respect of the dispersion relation, reflectivity, group velocity and effective group index of such a structure has been studied. In particular, the dependence of various properties of such a structure on the angle of incidence of the electromagnetic waves has been given more importance in the present study. The study shows that inside the conventional PBG structure as well as defect PBG structure, the group velocity and effective group index become negative for certain ranges of normalized frequency. In a defect PBG structure, it is possible to achieve desired values (negative or positive) of group velocity and effective group index by choosing appropriate angle of incidence, whereas in conventional PBG structures, the maximum (negative and positive) values of group velocities and effective group index are found to be almost independent of the angle of incidence. This is a unique property of defect PBG structure which is different from the properties of conventional PBG structures. Because of this unique property, defect PBG structure may be widely used for construction super lenses, lasing without inversion and other optical systems in photonics.
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