Regular Article

Unidirectional propagation in hybrid photonic crystals and clusters

Istituto di Struttura della Materia, CNR, C.P. 10, Monterotondo Stazione, 00015 Rome, Italy

^a e-mail: andrea.dandrea@mlib.ism.cnr.it

Received: 4 December 2018
Received in final form: 5 March 2019
Published online: 8 May 2019

Abstract

In the present work, we will perform the tailoring of resonant hybrid photonic crystals (RHPC) and clusters, based on the elementary cell of a resonant hybrid minimum model, in order to study its optical chiral properties, due to the space inversion symmetry breakdown and optical rotation effect, that are able to preserve unidirectional exciton-polariton propagation and photonic band gap formation. The optical chiral properties of these non-magnetic hybrid system will be discussed and the main optical parameter values, in order to observe unidirectional exciton-polariton propagation, will be evaluated in the self-consistent mesoscopic framework for the YVO₄/GaAs hybrid system.