Research on Transmission Characteristics of Two-Dimensional Superconducting Photonic Crystal in THz-Waves

In this paper, the transmission characteristics of two-dimensional photonic crystal with Hg-1223 cylindrical array in transverse magnetic mode are studied in terahertz-waves by shift operator finite-difference time-domain method. The effects of external temperature and pressure and the period and radius of the dielectric cylinders on the transmission properties of superconducting photonic crystal in terahertz-waves are studied. The simulation results show that external temperature and pressure can be used to change the plasma frequency of superconductor, thus adjusting band gap width of superconducting photonic crystal. The decreasing of the external temperature or the increasing of the pressure have resulted in the increasing of the band gap width of superconducting photonic crystal, while increasing external temperature or decreasing the pressure can decrease the band gap width, which gradually becomes apparent as temperature increases or pressure decreases. In addition, the increasing of the periods and radius of superconducting cylinders can also broaden the band gap of superconducting photonic crystal in terahertz-waves. The research in this paper is in terahertz-waves, and all the cutoff frequencies of band gap are between 0.1 and 6 THz, which provides references for practical application of superconducting photonic crystal.