Enhanced nanocavity Q-factor via slow light propagation and nonlinear effects

Author

Grinberg, Patricio ; Bencheikh, Kamel ; Brunstein, Maia ; Yiacomotti, Alejandro M. ; Dumeige, Yannick ; Levenson, Ariel

Author_Institution

Lab. de Photonique et de Nanostruct., Marcoussis, France

fYear

2012

fDate

2-5 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We show that the quality factor Q of a nanocavity is enhanced when containing a dispersive slow-light medium. The strong dispersion is achieved using the Coherent Population Oscillation (CPO) effect in the quantum wells of a 2-dimensionnal photonic crystal nanocavity. Starting with a nanocavity having a Q-factor of 6300, we end up with a Q-factor of 410000. This demonstration has further been confirmed by measuring a cavity lifetime of 342 ps, whereas the initial cavity lifetime of about 5.2 ps.

Keywords

Q-factor; nanophotonics; photonic crystals; slow light; 2-dimensionnal photonic crystal nanocavity; coherent population oscillation effect; dispersive slow-light medium; nanocavity Q-factor; nonlinear effects; quality factor; quantum wells; slow light propagation; time 342 ps; time 5.2 ps; Cavity resonators; Dispersion; Optical fibers; Optimized production technology; Photonic crystals; Photonics; Q factor; CPO effect; nanocavities; photonic crystals; slow light;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2012 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coventry

ISSN

2161-2056

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2228-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2012.6253916

Filename

6253916