SLOW LIGHT AND DISPERSION COMPENSATION BY CASCADING TWO PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a structure with cascaded two photonic crystal line-defect waveguides to reduce group velocity dispersion (GVD) of slow light. The width of the line-defect waveguides is tuned to obtain the two matched dispersion relations, where one of the dispersion relations has a maximum point with zero group velocity and large positive GVD; the other has a minimum point with zero group velocity and large negative GVD. The waveguides have ultra slow light with the group velocity 0.0012c. Finite-difference time-domain simulation demonstrates that the spreading of the slow light pulse in the first waveguide can be recovered by the dispersion compensation of the second waveguide with positive GVD.