INVESTIGATION ON VARIOUS DESIGN PARAMETERS WHICH AFFECT THE BANDGAP OF TWO DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL STRUCTURE

An emerging element in optical fiber communication, 2D Photonic Crystal is an artificial periodic structure having a bandgap which shows a prohibition of a range of wavelengths to pass away through it. Various design parameters which affect the bandgap of 2D photonic crystal structure such as lattice structure, shape of rods, r/a ratio, dielectric constant etc. are studied in this paper. The Plane Wave Expansion (PWE) method is used to calculate the bandgap structure of two dimensional photonic crystals.