Affiliation:
1. Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems, National Research Council, Via P. Castellino 111, I-80131 Naples, Italy
Abstract
Spatially disordered but uniformly distributed point patterns characterized by so-called blue-noise long-range spatial correlations are of great benefit in computer graphics, especially in spatial dithering thanks to the spatial isotropy. Herein, the potential photonic properties of blue-noise disordered, homogeneous point processes based on farthest-point optimization are numerically investigated for silicon photonics. The photonic properties of blue-noise two-dimensional patterns are studied as a function of the filling fraction and benchmarked with photonic crystals with a triangular lattice. Ultrawide and omnidirectional photonic band gaps spanning most of the visible spectrum are found with estimates of gap–midgap ratios of up to 55.4% for transverse magnetic polarization, 59.4% for transverse electric polarization, and 32.7% for complete band gaps. The waveguiding effect in azimuthal defect lines is also numerically evaluated. These results corroborate the idea that long-range correlated disordered structures are helpful for engineering novel devices with the additional degree of freedom of spatial isotropy, and capable of bandgap opening even without total suppression of infinite-wavelength density fluctuations.
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