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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 24, Issue 5, Pages 4542-4551Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.24.004542
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- National Science Foundation (NSF) [IIP-1444922]
- Div Of Industrial Innovation & Partnersh
- Directorate For Engineering [1444922] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Applying numerical modeling coupled with experiments, we investigate the properties of wideband resonant reflectors under fully conical light incidence. We show that the wave vectors pertinent to resonant first-order diffraction under fully conical mounting vary less with incident angle than those associated with reflectors in classical mounting. Therefore, as the evanescent diffracted waves drive the leaky modes responsible for the resonance effects, fully-conical mounting imbues reflectors with larger angular tolerance than their classical counterparts. We quantify the angular-spectral performance of representative resonant wideband reflectors in conic and classic mounts by numerical calculations with improved spectra found for fully conic incidence. Moreover, these predictions are verified experimentally for wideband reflectors fashioned in crystalline and amorphous silicon in distinct spectral regions spanning the 1200-1600-nm and 1600-2400-nm spectral bands. These results will be useful in various applications demanding wideband reflectors that are efficient and materially sparse. (C) 2016 Optical Society of America
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