The extraordinary broadband high-reflectivity features of high-contrast gratings are stimulating great interest in many opto-electronic applications. In view of obtaining a simple simulation framework, the analogy of high-contrast grating reflectors with bimodal Fabry-Pérot interferometers is proposed. The closed-form expressions of the interferometer reflectivity, obtained starting from a novel parametrization of the scattering matrices characterizing the bar-air interface, allow a complete exploration of the device parameter space, explaining and predicting the phenomenon of ultra-broadband quasi-100% reflectivity. In this paper an optimized and numerically efficient design procedure is described and compared with the standard rigorous coupled wave analysis, both for the classical "bar-in-air" configuration and for a more robust and practical one, with bars lying on a dielectric support. It is shown that the model can be applied also in the more realistic case of lossy gratings.

Bimodal Resonance Phenomena. Part III: High-Contrast Grating Reflectors / Tibaldi, Alberto; Debernardi, Pierluigi; Orta, Renato. - In: IEEE JOURNAL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS. - ISSN 0018-9197. - STAMPA. - 54:6(2018), pp. 1-8. [10.1109/JQE.2018.2876862]

Bimodal Resonance Phenomena. Part III: High-Contrast Grating Reflectors

Alberto Tibaldi;Pierluigi Debernardi;Renato Orta
2018

Abstract

The extraordinary broadband high-reflectivity features of high-contrast gratings are stimulating great interest in many opto-electronic applications. In view of obtaining a simple simulation framework, the analogy of high-contrast grating reflectors with bimodal Fabry-Pérot interferometers is proposed. The closed-form expressions of the interferometer reflectivity, obtained starting from a novel parametrization of the scattering matrices characterizing the bar-air interface, allow a complete exploration of the device parameter space, explaining and predicting the phenomenon of ultra-broadband quasi-100% reflectivity. In this paper an optimized and numerically efficient design procedure is described and compared with the standard rigorous coupled wave analysis, both for the classical "bar-in-air" configuration and for a more robust and practical one, with bars lying on a dielectric support. It is shown that the model can be applied also in the more realistic case of lossy gratings.
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