2020/02/29 by Dejun Liu, Lin Chen, Liu, Dejun +3
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Optics (physics.optics) #Photonic Crystals and Applications #Photonic and Optical Devices #Terahertz technology and applications
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2003.00190
openalex publication_date 2020/02/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Compact and low-loss photonic crystal waveguides are critical in integrated terahertz (THz) applications. Compared with pure metal or dielectric photonic crystal waveguides, hybrid (metal-dielectric) integrated waveguides provide a simple way to further improve the field confinement and the propagation loss. In this work, we investigate a hybrid waveguide consisting of metallic photonic crystals and dielectric films in 0.1-1.0 THz. Photonic crystal waveguides based on metal pillar arrays (MPAs) support two resonance modes including the fundamental and high-order transverse magnetic (TM) modes and then form one apparent bandgap in 0.45-0.55 THz. The high-order TM-mode shows higher confinement than the fundamental mode and are thus sensitive to the dielectric film on the MPAs. The propagation loss and field confinement can be optimized by changing the dielectric film thickness and refractive index. The investigation shows that the lowest loss occurs at 0.68 THz because the high-order TM-mode THz waves are tightly confined inside the hybrid waveguide. This work proves that such hybrid waveguides based on metallic photonic crystals are promising to develop as a compact integrated terahertz device.