Numerical investigation of a new temperature-dependent tunable photonic crystal with mirror symmetry and a superconductor defect layer at the fiber optics communication wavelength bands.

In this paper, the temperature dependence of defect modes of several one-dimensional superconducting-dielectrics photonic crystals was studied implementing the matrix transformation method. The thermo-optical effect and the thermal expansion effect were considered for a closer look (to obtain more accurate results). The studied photonic crystals contained SiO2 (L), Bi4Ge3O12 (H), MoSe2 (M) dielectrics, and the YBa2Cu3O7 (S) superconductor. Our results indicated that among the considered photonic crystals, the (HLM)NS(MLH)NL structure had the most temperature sensitivity, which could be applied as a low-temperature sensor and a tunable filter. The thickness of the layers was assumed in the nano-meter range. In order to validate our method, we compared our simulation result with an available experimental data in the literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]