Photonic crystals and related photonic nanodevices

Author

Baba, Toshihiko

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Yokohama Nat. Univ., Japan

fYear

2004

fDate

31 May-4 June 2004

Firstpage

89

Lastpage

93

Abstract

This talk presents some photonic crystal (PC) and quasiperiodic photonic crystal (QPC) microlasers based on InP materials, and the other an potential application of PC line defect waveguide for an optical group delay device. The PC laser exhibits a fast spontaneous emission decay even far below threshold, which is explained by Purcell effect. The QPC laser shows unique lasing characteristics arising from the mixture of light localization and propagation, which cannot be observed in PCs. The group delay device will allow not only an effective delay but also strong light-matter interaction even for short optical pulse by the perfect dispersion management in a chirped waveguide structure.

Keywords

chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; light diffraction; light propagation; microcavity lasers; nanotechnology; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; spontaneous emission; PC line defect waveguide; Purcell effect; chirped waveguide structure; dispersion management; light localization; light propagation; light-matter interaction; optical group delay device; photonic nanodevices; quasiperiodic photonic crystal microlasers; spontaneous emission decay; Crystalline materials; Delay effects; Indium phosphide; Optical devices; Optical materials; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals; Propagation delay; Stimulated emission; Waveguide lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Indium Phosphide and Related Materials, 2004. 16th IPRM. 2004 International Conference on

ISSN

1092-8669

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8595-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIPRM.2004.1442618

Filename

1442618