Superprism Explained

A superprism is a photonic crystal in which an entering beam of light will lead to an extremely large angular dispersion. The ability of the photonic crystal to send optical beams with different wavelengths to considerably different angles in space in superprisms has been used to demonstrate wavelength demultiplexing in these structures. The first superprism also modified group velocity rather than phase velocity in order to achieve the "superprism phenomena". This effect was interpreted as anisotropic dispersion in contrast to an isotropic dispersion. Furthermore, the two beams of light appear to show negative bending within the crystal.^[1]

See also

• Superlens
• Prism (optics)
• Metamaterial
• Perfect mirror

Further reading

• Prasad T, Colvin V, Mittleman D . 2003 . BROKEN LINK Superprism phenomenon in three-dimensional macroporous polymer photonic crystals BROKEN LINK . Physical Review B . 67 . 16 . 165103 . 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.165103 . 2003PhRvB..67p5103P . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070317103327/http://nanonet.rice.edu/papers/PRBpaper.pdf . 2007-03-17 .
• Nelson BE, Gerken M, Miller DA, Piestun R, Lin C, Harris JS . 2000 . Use of a dielectric stack as a one-dimensional photonic crystal for wavelength demultiplexing by beam shifting . Optics Letters . 25 . 20 . 1502–4 . 10.1364/OL.25.001502 . 18066259 . 2000OptL...25.1502N . 10.1.1.32.3738 .
• Matsumoto T, Fujita S, Baba T . 2005 . Wavelength demultiplexer consisting of Photonic crystal superprism and superlens . Optics Express . 13 . 26 . 10768–76 . 10.1364/OPEX.13.010768 . 19503294 . 2005OExpr..1310768M . free .
• Witzens J, Baehr-Jones T, Scherer A . 2005 . Hybrid superprism with low insertion losses and suppressed cross-talk . Physical Review E . 71 . 1 . 026604 . 2005PhRvE..71a6604W . 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.016604 . 15697744 .
• Momeni B, Huang J, Soltani M, Askari M, Mohammadi S, Rakhshandehroo M, Adibi A . 2006 . Compact wavelength demultiplexing using focusing negative index photonic crystal superprisms . Optics Express . 14 . 6 . 2413–22 . 10.1364/OE.14.002413 . 19503580. 2006OExpr..14.2413M . free . 1853/45512 . free .
• Jugessur A, Wu L, Bakhtazad A, Kirk A, Krauss T, De La Rue R . 2006 . Compact and integrated 2-D photonic crystal super-prism filter-device for wavelength demultiplexing applications . Optics Express . 14 . 4 . 1632–42 . 10.1364/OE.14.001632 . 19503491. 2006OExpr..14.1632J . free .

Notes and References

1. 10.1103/PhysRevB.58.R10096 . Superprism phenomena in photonic crystals . Free PDF download . 1998 . Kosaka . Hideo . Kawashima . Takayuki . Tomita . Akihisa . Notomi . Masaya . Tamamura . Toshiaki . Sato . Takashi . Kawakami . Shojiro . Physical Review B . 58 . 16 . R10096 . 1998PhRvB..5810096K . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141021165127/http://www.ee.washington.edu/people/faculty/lin_lih/EE539Sp08/PRB1998-Superprism%20in%20PC.pdf . 2014-10-21 .