Hollow-Core Terahertz Optical Waveguides With Hyperuniform Disordered Reflectors

TL;DR

This paper introduces novel hollow-core terahertz waveguides with hyperuniform disordered reflectors, demonstrating their fabrication, tunable photonic band gaps, and potential for efficient THz transmission.

Contribution

It presents a new design and fabrication method for THz waveguides with hyperuniform disordered reflectors, showing tunable optical properties and experimental validation.

Findings

Waveguides exhibit 20% photonic band gaps.

Band gap position can be tuned by geometrical parameters.

Fabrication achieved using 3D stereolithography.

Abstract

Novel hollow-core THz waveguides featuring hyperuniform disordered reflectors are proposed, fabricated, and characterized. The reflector comprise aperiodically positioned dielectric cylinders connected with dielectric bridges. The proposed waveguides are fabricated using a 3D stereolithography printer. Optical properties of the fabricated waveguide are investigated numerically using finite element method, as well as experimentally using THz-TDS spectroscopy. The results confirm that proposed waveguides exhibit sizable photonic band gaps (20%) even when relatively low refractive index contrast used (resin/air). Position of the band gaps can be easily tuned by varying reflector geometrical parameters.