The design of an optical triode

Abstract

Under the action of pump light, a conventional photonic crystal can be turned into a functional photonic crystal. In the paper, we have designed an optical triode with a one-dimensional functional photonic crystal, and analyzed the effect of period number, medium thickness, refractive index, incident angle, the irradiation frequency and the intensity of the pump light on the optical triode magnification. We obtain some valuable results, which shall help to optimize the design of optical triodes.

The Design of Optical Diodes

“…In Refs. [25][26][27][28][29][30], we have proposed the FPCs, which the medium refractive index is the function of space position, which can be realized by the electro-optic effect or the Kerr effect. On the basis, we have designed optical diodes using one-dimensional FPCs (AB) N , which the refractive indexes of media A and B are not constant, but the functions of space coordinate, such as n a (x) = n a (0) + na(a)−na(0) a x, and…”

“…In Ref. [30], we have designed the optical triode with the one-dimensional FPCs. For the convention photonic crystals, the refractive indexes of media A and B are constant, because its transmissivity and electric field distribution are the same for the positive incident and negative incident, it can not be made into optical diodes.…”

“…The transfer matrix and transmissivity of one-dimensional function photonic crystals (FPCs) In Refs. [25][26][27][28][29][30], we have given the transfer matrices of media A and B, they are…”