Influence of defect mode displacement in photonic crystal band gap over light group velocity

Abstract

The light group velocity of defect mode in photonic crystal is active controlled in order to gain controllable light delay by using thermo-optic effect to change the reflective index of material or changing the geometry structure of photonic crystal. From former research we know that the position of defect mode in band gap is changed with light group velocity. Our research further finds that the position of defect mode can be kept by changing more than one parameter correspondingly, and meanwhile the group velocity is not changed too. It comes to the relationship between position of defect mode in photonic band gap and light group velocity, and it is proved theoretically using the principle of plane wave expand method.