supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin, China (09JCYBJC01500);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11104200);the Scientific Research Project of Tianjin Educational Committee (20110906);the Innovation Foundation of Tianjin University, China
We propose a method to bend a self-collimated beam in a photonic crystal. The beam bending relies on the gradual variation of the constitutive parameters of the photonic crystal. A new Y-shaped beam splitter is design...