Abstract
We design two novel air-hole-array strip waveguides: one with elliptic air holes and the other with sandglass-shaped ones. Simulation results prove that flatband modes with low group velocity and low dispersion can be obtained. Each waveguide has its merits; one can choose waveguides with a low group velocity of 2.52×10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">-3</sup> c and a narrow bandwidth of 2.71 nm (one with elliptic air holes) or a high group velocity of 1.2×10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">-2</sup> c and a wide bandwidth of 13.6 nm (one with sandglass-shaped air holes), according to the application. Numerical simulation by finite-difference time domain (FDTD) demonstrates the propagation of the broadband pulse.
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