Hyperuniform Disorder in Photonic Crystal Slabs with Intrinsic non-Hermiticity
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| author | Zhang, Zeyu Sadri, Koorosh Gould, Brian Rechtsman, Mikael |
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| contents | Hyperuniform disorder is a type of correlated disorder characterized by vanishing spectral density at small wavevectors, making the configuration effectively homogeneous on long length scales. In photonics, hyperuniform disorder is promising for generating isotropic photonic pseudogaps and engineering photonic crystal waveguides. However, these studies are largely restricted to idealized lossless settings, although all photonic systems necessarily have loss. In this work, light propagation in photonic crystal slabs with imposed hyperuniform disorder is investigated theoretically and numerically. The system is intrinsically non-Hermitian due to radiative loss, with non-Hermiticity appearing as a complex effective mass of a quadratic photonic band. A theoretical framework for disorder scattering is analytically derived in Hermitian and non-Hermitian quadratic bands with real and complex effective mass, respectively. In contrast to the power law behavior $|\mathbf{k}|^α$ observed in the Hermitian case (where $α$ is the hyperuniformity exponent), the scattering loss in the non-Hermitian band is given by $C_0+C_{β_2}\cdot|\mathbf{k}|^{β_2}$, where $C_0$ is a finite constant and the exponent $β_2\leq 2$. Our theoretical predictions are verified with tight-binding and Finite-Difference Time-Domain simulations with realistic photonic crystal parameters, based on recent experiments. |
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| spellingShingle | Hyperuniform Disorder in Photonic Crystal Slabs with Intrinsic non-Hermiticity Zhang, Zeyu Sadri, Koorosh Gould, Brian Rechtsman, Mikael Optics Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Soft Condensed Matter Hyperuniform disorder is a type of correlated disorder characterized by vanishing spectral density at small wavevectors, making the configuration effectively homogeneous on long length scales. In photonics, hyperuniform disorder is promising for generating isotropic photonic pseudogaps and engineering photonic crystal waveguides. However, these studies are largely restricted to idealized lossless settings, although all photonic systems necessarily have loss. In this work, light propagation in photonic crystal slabs with imposed hyperuniform disorder is investigated theoretically and numerically. The system is intrinsically non-Hermitian due to radiative loss, with non-Hermiticity appearing as a complex effective mass of a quadratic photonic band. A theoretical framework for disorder scattering is analytically derived in Hermitian and non-Hermitian quadratic bands with real and complex effective mass, respectively. In contrast to the power law behavior $|\mathbf{k}|^α$ observed in the Hermitian case (where $α$ is the hyperuniformity exponent), the scattering loss in the non-Hermitian band is given by $C_0+C_{β_2}\cdot|\mathbf{k}|^{β_2}$, where $C_0$ is a finite constant and the exponent $β_2\leq 2$. Our theoretical predictions are verified with tight-binding and Finite-Difference Time-Domain simulations with realistic photonic crystal parameters, based on recent experiments. |
| title | Hyperuniform Disorder in Photonic Crystal Slabs with Intrinsic non-Hermiticity |
| topic | Optics Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Soft Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04389 |