Abstract

In this paper, slow light features of an engineered photonic crystal waveguide are presented. The combined effect of lattice shift, lattice twist and introduction of ring-like holes (rings) in the innermost rows on the slow light features is studied. The rings are introduced in the first and second innermost rows of the waveguide. Slow light is characterized by calculating group index, second and fourth-order dispersions, and delay-bandwidth products. MIT Photonic Bands software is used for simulation. With rings in the innermost rows, a flat band of 17.71 nm is observed with a group index value of 12.72 and a flat band of 40.16 nm with a group index of 7.77. The normalized delay bandwidth product (NDBP) is observed as 0.1378 in the first structure and 0.1874 in the second structure with the proposed effects. These values are nearly 4.3 times higher in comparison with the NDBP value of the base structure (0.0436) and approximately 2 times higher than the engineered structure (0.0927). These structures are useful in slow light applications.

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