Abstract
We propose a flexible design for one-dimensional photonic crystals (1D-PCs) with a controllable omnidirectional band gap covering the optical telecommunication wavelengths which are 0.85 mu m, 1.3 mu m and 1.55 mu m. We used for this design the chirped grating. Chirping is applied to geometric thicknesses of layers. It takes two forms, one is linear and the other is exponential. We exploit this technique to have the suitable omnidirectional band gap covering the maximum of optical telecommunication wavelengths. With a quarter wave structure, we can have an omnidirectional band gap generating only one of these wavelengths. With graded structure, we obtain, as is reported in this paper, an omnidirectional band gap which covers the wavelengths 1.3 mu m and 1.55 mu m at the same time with a large bandwidth. We also achieve an omnidirectional band gap containing the wavelength 0.85 mu m and which is obviously larger than that of the quarter wave stack. (C) 2011 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.