Superconducting photonic crystals

TL;DR

This paper investigates the band structure and photonic gap properties of a novel two-dimensional superconducting photonic crystal using numerical plane wave expansion methods.

Contribution

It introduces a new type of superconducting photonic crystal and analyzes its band structure and photonic gap dependence on filling factor.

Findings

Band structure calculated for superconducting photonic crystal

Photonic gap width depends on filling factor

Density of states characterized for the structure

Abstract

The band structure of a novel type of photonic crystal with superconducting constituent elements is calculated numerically via a plane wave expansion. The density of states and the dependence of the width of the photonic gap on the filling factor is analyzed for a two-dimensional photonic crystal consisting of an infinite array of parallel superconducting cylinders.