Abstract
A silicon-based one-dimensional photonic crystal heterostructure is proposed, and its applications to an omnidirectional reflector and a transverse electric/transverse magnetic (TE/TM) splitter are illustrated. The photonic crystal heterostructure consists of two sets of multilayers, each has six periods of bilayers of poly-silicon and silicon dioxide. When the incident light comes from a medium with refractive index lower than 1.16, there is a frequency range over which of both TE and TM polarizations will be totally reflected at any incident angle. In such a case, the photonic crystal heterostructure can be used as a low loss omnidirectional dielectric reflector. However, when the refractive index of the medium is higher than 1.16, the heterostructure will serve as a good TE/TM splitter of very low crosstalk within certain ranges of light frequency and incident angle.
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