Special optical communication filter based on Thue-Morse photonic crystal structure

Abstract

In this paper we proposed a novel narrowband optical filter for wavelength division multiplexing applications. Due to their high transmission efficiency and very narrowband properties, we used the 5th generation Thue-Morse structure for designing our proposed filter. But novelty of our work is introducing another ID photonic crystal structure as a defect structure into the Thue-Morse structure in order to create pass band inside the photonic band gap of the Thue-Morse structure. All of the simulations and calculations have been done using the transfer matrix method. The most interesting property of this filter is that by increasing the number of the periods of the ordinary 1D photonic crystal, the number of the pass bands increases