Photonic Moire lattice waveguide with a large slow light bandwidth and delay-bandwidth product

We proposed an effective approach to enlarge the slow light bandwidth and normalized-delay-bandwidth product in an optimized moire lattice-based photonic crystal waveguide that exhibits intrinsic mid-band characteristics. A flatband corresponding to a nearly constant group index of 34 over a wide bandwidth of 82 nm centered at 1550 nm with near-zero group velocity dispersion was achieved. A large normalized-delay-bandwidth product of 0.5712 with a relative dispersion of 0.114%/mu m was obtained, which is a significant improvement if compared with previous results. Our results indicate that the photonic moire lattice waveguide could advance slow light applications. (C) 2022 Optica Publishing Group