Numerical study on silicon photonic crystal defect waveguide with parametrically engineered photonic bandgap

Abstract Despite being potential candidates for future photonic integrated circuits, silicon photonic crystal waveguides (PCWs) suffer from a notable trade-off between their group index and low-dispersion bandwidth, limiting their applicability. Although various approaches to mitigate this limitation in PCWs in the conventional triangular lattice have been reported, most of them require complex manipulation of several PCW design parameters. This study presents the design of a silicon single-line-defect PCW in a perturbed kagome lattice with a lattice shift, focusing on its photonic bandgap (PBG) that can be parametrically engineered by modifying the perturbation in unit cells. A broad group index ranging from 56 to 256, with a low-dispersion bandwidth ranging from 6.18 to 1.05 nm, was achieved by merely adjusting the perturbation in the unit cells, highlighting the potential of controlling the PBG to design and optimize Si PCWs with a high group index and wide low-dispersion bandwidth.