Abstract

We present a theoretical study of the reshaping of subpicosecond optical pulses in the vicinity of double-peaked defect-mode frequencies in the spectrum of a one-dimensional photonic crystal with two defect layers and calculate the time delay of the transmitted pulses. We used the transfer matrix method for the evaluation of the transmittivity spectra, and the Fourier transform technique for the calculation of the transmitted pulse envelopes. The most considerable reshaping of the pulses takes place for pulses with a carrier frequency in the defect-mode center and with a spectrum wider than the half-width of the defect mode. For pulses with the carrier frequency at the low- and high-frequency peaks of the defect mode, reshaping is strong for the twice as wide pulses. The maximal time delay of a spectrally narrow pulse is of the order of the pulse duration and demonstrates extrema at the frequencies of the defect-mode peaks. The time delay of a wide pulse does not depend on the carrier frequency, but is one order of magnitude larger than the pulse duration.

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