Tunable omnidirectional reflection bands and defect modes of a one-dimensional photonic band gap structure with liquid crystals

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  • Young-Ki Ha
    Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon 305-701, Korea
  • Y.-C. Yang
    Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon 305-701, Korea
  • J.-E. Kim
    Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon 305-701, Korea
  • H. Y. Park
    Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon 305-701, Korea
  • C.-S. Kee
    Department of Molecular Science and Technology, Ajou University, Suwon 442-749, Korea
  • H. Lim
    Department of Molecular Science and Technology, Ajou University, Suwon 442-749, Korea
  • J.-C. Lee
    Department of Information and Communications, Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Kwangju 500-712, Korea

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<jats:p>We have theoretically investigated the tunability of the omnidirectional reflection band (ORB) of a one-dimensional (1D) photonic crystal (PC) consisting of alternating isotropic dielectric and nematic liquid crystal layers by an external electric field. The width of the ORB becomes wide as the external voltage increases, but the center frequency is changed little. The frequency of the defect mode created by inserting a layer of liquid crystals into a 1D dielectric PC is also found to be tunable by the application of external voltage. These properties can be applied to tunable optical filters or optical switches.</jats:p>

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