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Order to disorder optical phase transition in random photonic crystals

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Transition process of optical modal properties induced by the introduction of randomness into random photonic crystals is investigated by a computational method. We analyze an impulse response of two-dimensional triangular photonic crystals, in which the positions of the air holes are slightly deviated to random directions. It is shown that the appropriate degree of random departure from a perfect crystal state gives rise to multiple scattering of low group velocity band-edge modes and supports their strong Anderson localization. The achieved confinement efficiency of light exceeds the one obtained in the perfect photonic crystal state.

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  1. School of Integrated Design Engineering, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, 223-8522, Japan

    S. Takeda, S. Hamada & M. Obara

  2. Institut des Nanotechnologies de Lyon INL-UMR 5270, CNRS, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, 36 Avenue de Guy de Collongue, 69134, Ecully Cedex, France

    R. Peretti & P. Viktorovitch

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Takeda, S., Hamada, S., Peretti, R. et al. Order to disorder optical phase transition in random photonic crystals. Appl. Phys. B 106, 95–100 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-011-4595-z

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