PHOTONIC CRYSTAL ASSISTED 90° WAVEGUIDE BEND

The 90° waveguide bend is an important component of optical circuit applications. We propose several models for such a bend, some of them assisted by a two-dimensional photonic crystal with a bandgap in the desired range of operating frequencies. We show that a photonic crystal assisted bend reduces bending loss by several orders of magnitude for transverse electric modes. © 2011 World Scientific Publishing Company.
Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (107T569)