Electromagnetic Bloch oscillation in one-dimensional multiple microcavities composed of metamaterials

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/23/4/044101

Abstract We propose a photonic structure stacked sequentially by one-dimensional photonic crystals and cavities. The whole structure is composed of single-negative and double-negative materials. The optical Wannier-Stark ladder (WSL) can be obtained in a low frequency region by modulating the widths of the cavities in order. We simulate the dynamical behavior of the electromagnetic wave passing through the proposed photonic structure. Due to the dispersive characteristics of the metamaterials, a very narrow WSL can be obtained. The long-period electromagnetic Bloch oscillation is demonstrated theoretically to have a period on a microsecond time scale.

Keywords: Bloch oscillation metamaterial

Received: 07 August 2013
Revised: 09 September 2013
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PACS:	41.20.Jb	(Electromagnetic wave propagation; radiowave propagation)
	78.67.Pt	(Multilayers; superlattices; photonic structures; metamaterials)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11264029, 11264030, and 11304144), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province, China (Grant No. 20114BAB212005), and the Natural Science Foundation of Education Department of Jiangxi Province, China (Grant No. GJJ12139).

Corresponding Authors: Wang Tong-Biao
E-mail: tbwang@ncu.edu.cn

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Wang Tong-Biao (王同标), Liu Nian-Hua (刘念华), Yu Tian-Bao (于天宝), Deng Xin-Hua (邓新华), Xu Xu-Ming (徐旭明), Liao Qing-Hua (廖清华) Electromagnetic Bloch oscillation in one-dimensional multiple microcavities composed of metamaterials 2014 Chin. Phys. B 23 044101

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