Authors: W Y Liang J W Dong G Q Liang H Z Wang
Publish Date: 2009/07/18
Volume: 96, Issue: 4, Pages: 781-
Abstract
We study the collimated emission characteristics from a dipole source inside a negativeeffectiverefractiveindex photonic crystal with a quasicavity constructed by a concave photonic crystal reflector The emissions along the ±X and −Y directions are forbidden by the quasicavity so that most emissions propagate along the +Y direction Simulation results show that a narrow collimated beam is achieved due to the nearzero negative effective refractive index Moreover the halfpower beam width of such a collimated beam can be reduced to 348° by optimizing the size of the source area Such a compact structure would have potential applications in microoptical devices
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