Self-collimation of light in three-dimensional photonic crystals

Opt Express. 2005 Sep 5;13(18):7076-85. doi: 10.1364/opex.13.007076.

Abstract

We calculate three-dimensional (3D) dispersion relations of woodpile and inverse opal photonic crystals. Inspecting the iso-frequency surfaces of the four lowest-order bands at appropriate frequencies we identify regions where self-collimation of light may be expected. These predictions are verified by means of finite-difference time-domain calculations both for high- and low-index photonic crystals.