Bandgap formation and selective suppression of Bloch states in birefringent gyrotropic Bragg waveguides

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Article

Publication Date

8-18-2008

Abstract

Birefringent magnetophotonic crystals are found to exhibit degeneracy breaking for asymmetric contradirectional coupling in planar waveguides. Fundamental to high-order local normal mode coupling leads to partially overlapping gyrotropic bandgaps inside the Brillouin zone and partial suppression of Bloch mode propagation. A large magneto-optically active reorientation in polarization state is found for allowed Bloch modes at bandgap edges. © 2008 Optical Society of America.

Publication Title

Optics Express

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