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Fabrication of one-dimensional photonic crystals with Al2O3/TiO2 by pulsed laser deposition

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One-dimensional photonic crystal (1D PC) mirrors consisting of Al2O3/TiO2 stacks are theoretically and experimentally investigated at visible frequencies. In our experiments the refractive index of Al2O3 is tunable from 1.43 to 1.68. We found that the Al2O3/TiO2 combination can be adopted to fabricate both broad- and narrow-band 1D PC mirrors: Substituting nanoporous Al2O3 for dense SiO2 in an SiO2/TiO2 broad-band mirror yields the same spectral properties, while using dense Al2O3 in the combination can reduce the band-gap width to as low as 30 nm. The experimentally measured reflection and transmission spectra agree with the numerical results obtained by the transfer matrix method.

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This work was supported by National Nature Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61275147, the Science and Technology Development program of Shandong Province of China under Grant No. 2010GGX10127, the Award Fund for Prominent Youth Scientists of Shandong Province of China under Grant No. BS2009DX014, and the Project of Shandong Province Higher Educational Science and Technology Program under Grant No. J10LA60.

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    Xiao Xing, Wenjun Wang, Shuhong Li, Yunlong Liu, Dong Zhang, Qiang Shi, Xuexi Gao & Bingyuan Zhang

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Xing, X., Wang, W., Li, S. et al. Fabrication of one-dimensional photonic crystals with Al2O3/TiO2 by pulsed laser deposition. Appl. Phys. A 113, 367–371 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-013-7818-9

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