Nearly three orders of magnitude enhancement of Goos-Hanchen shift by exciting Bloch surface wave

Opt Express. 2012 Apr 9;20(8):8998-9003. doi: 10.1364/OE.20.008998.

Abstract

Goos-Hanchen effect is experimentally studied when the Bloch surface wave is excited in the forbidden band of a one-dimensional photonic band-gap structure. By tuning the refractive index of the cladding covering the truncated photonic crystal structure, either a guided or a surface mode can be excited. In the latter case, strong enhancement of the Goos-Hanchen shift induced by the Bloch-surface-wave results in sub-millimeter shifts of the reflected beam position. Such giant Goos-Hanchen shift, ~750 times of the wavelength, could enable many intriguing applications that had been less than feasible to implement before.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't