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Fabrication And Characterization Of Photonic Crystal Slow Light Waveguides And Cavities
Published on: November 30, 2012
Photo-responsive photonic crystals for broad wavelength shifts
Bingquan Yang1, Lu Li2, Kuishan Du3
1School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Henan 450001, China. bingbing197@163.com and Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interface Sciences, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China. songkai@mail.ipc.ac.cn longyue@mail.ipc.ac.cn.
Abstract:
A facile method to realize photo-responsive inverse opal photonic crystal polymer (IOPP) films with an adjustable broad-wavelength-range photonic band gap (PBG) was demonstrated in this communication. When immersing the IOPP film in malachite green carbinol base (MGCB) solution, under light irradiation, the MGCB released hydroxide ions. In this way, optical signals were converted to chemical signals. As a result, the pH sensitive IOPP film expanded and the PBG changed. The band gap movement of the IOPP films with different monomer to cross-linker ratios was studied in this work.
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