Nanophotonics based on planar photonic crystals

Author

Loncar, Marko ; Yoshie, Tomoyuki ; Vuckovic, Jelena ; Scherer, Axel ; Chen, Hao ; Deppe, Dennis ; Gogna, Pawan ; Qiu, Yueming ; Nedeljkovic, Dusan ; Pearsall, Thomas P.

Author_Institution

California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

10-14 Nov. 2002

Firstpage

671

Abstract

Summary form only given. By creating different types of defects in the photonic crystal lattice, various nanophotonics components, such as cavities and waveguides, can be realized. The quest for a compact and efficient nano-cavity, with high quality factor (Q) and small mode volume (V_mode), has been a central part of research in integrated optics. Recently, we have proposed a systematic method to design optical nano-cavities that satisfy both of these requirements. The cavity consists of a defect hole that is smaller than surrounding holes arranged in the triangular lattice photonic crystal. In order to test our design we have fabricated high-Q cavities in the InGaAsP material system.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; Q-factor; gallium arsenide; indium compounds; integrated optics; laser cavity resonators; nanotechnology; optical planar waveguides; photonic crystals; quantum well lasers; InGaAsP material system; InGaAsP-InGaAs-InP; InP; cavities; compressively strained quantum wells; defect hole; high quality factor; high-Q cavities; integrated optics; nanophotonics; nanophotonics components; optical nano-cavities; planar photonic crystals; small mode volume; triangular lattice photonic crystal; waveguides; Design methodology; Integrated optics; Lattices; Materials testing; Nanophotonics; Optical design; Optical waveguide components; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals; Q factor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2002. LEOS 2002. The 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7500-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2002.1159484

Filename

1159484