Ultra-high-reflectivity photonic-bandgap mirrors in a ridge SOI waveguide

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Velha, P ^a,b,c   Rodier, J C ^a   Lalanne, P ^a   Hugonin, J P ^a   Peyrade, D ^b   Picard, E ^c   Charvolin, T ^c   Hadji, E ^c  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; ETCHING; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

MODAL VOLUMES; PHOTONIC-BANDGAP MIRRORS; SILICON-ON-INSULATOR (SOI) RIDGE WAVEGUIDES; TELECOMMUNICATION WAVELENGTHS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 33749025805     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: 13672630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/8/9/204     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Little B E and Chu S T 2000 Toward very large-scale integrated photonics Opt. Photonics News 24-29, November 2000
2. Vahala K J 2003 Optical microcavities Nature 424 839
3. Yokoyama H and Ujihara K 1996 Spontaneous Emission and Laser Oscillation in Microcavities (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press)
4. Kippenberg T J, Spillane S M and Vahala K J 2004 Demonstration of ultra-high-Q small mode volume toroid microcavities on a chip Appl. Phys. Lett. 85 6113-5
5. Varoutsis S, Laurent S, Sagnes I, Lemaitre A, Ferlazzo L, Meriadec C, Patriarche G, Robert-Philip I and Abram I 2005 Reactive-ion etching of high-Q and submicron-diameter GaAs/AlAs micropillar cavities J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 23 2499-503
6. Kuramochi E, Notomi M, Mitsugi S, Shinya A and Tanabe T 2006 Ultrahigh-Q photonic crystal nanocavities realized by the local width modulation of a line defect Appl. Phys. Lett. 88 041112
7. Sauvan C, Lalanne P and Hugonin J P 2005 Slow-wave effect and mode-profile matching in photonic crystal microcavities Phys. Rev. B 71 165118
8. Tanaka Y, Asano T, Hatsuta R and Noda S 2006 Investigation of point-defect cavity formed in two-dimensional photonic crystal slab with one-sided dielectric cladding Appl. Phys. Lett. 88 011112
9. Lalanne P and Hugonin J P 2003 Bloch-wave engineering for high Q's, small V's microcavities IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 39 1430-8
10. Sauvan C, Lecamp G, Lalanne P and Hugonin J P 2005 Modal-reflectivity enhancement by geometry tuning in photonic crystal microcavities Opt. Express 13 245-55
11. Zhang J P, Chu D Y, Wu S L, Bi W G, Tiberio R C, Joseph R M, Taflove A, Tu C W and Ho S T 1996 IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 8 491
12. Ripin D J, Lim K Y, Petrich G S, Villeneuve P R, Fan S, Thoen E R, Joannopoulos J D, Ippen E P and Kolodziejski L A 2000 Photonic band gap airbridge microcavity resonances in GaAs/AlxOy waveguides J. Appl. Phys. 87 1578
13. Jugessur A S, Pettier P and De La Rue R M 2003 One-dimensional periodic photonic crystal microcavity filters with transition mode-matching features, embedded in ridge waveguides Electron. Lett. 39 367-9
14. Foresi J S, Villeneuve P R, Ferrera J, Thoen E R, Steinmeyer G, Fan S, Joannopoulos J D, Kimerling L C, Smith H I and Ippen E P 1997 Photonic-bandgap microcavities in optical waveguides Nature 390 143-5
15. Silberstein E, Lalanne P, Hugonin J P and Cao Q 2001 On the use of grating theory in integrated optics J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 18 2865-75
16. Moharam M G, Grann E B, Pommet D A and Gaylord T K 1995 Formulation for stable and efficient implementation of the rigorous coupled-wave analysis of binary gratings J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 12 1068-76
17. Hugonin J P and Lalanne P 2005 Perfectly-matched-layers as nonlinear coordinate transforms: a generalized formalization J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 22 1844-9
18. Cao Q, Lalanne P and Hugonin J P 2002 Stable and efficient Bloch-mode computational method for one-dimensional grating waveguide J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 19 335-8
19. Lecamp G, Lalanne P, Hugonin J P and Gérard J M 2005 Energy transfer through laterally confined Bragg mirrors and its impact on pillar microcavities IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 41 1323-9
20. Palamaru M and Lalanne P 2001 Photonic crystal waveguides: out-of-plane losses and adiabatic modal conversion Appl. Phys. Lett. 78 1466-9
21. Lardenois S, Pascal D, Vivien L, Cassan E, Laval S, Orobtchouk R, Heitzmann M, Bouzaida N and Mollard L 2003 Low-loss submicrometer silicon-on-insulator rib waveguides and corner mirrors Opt. Lett. 28 1150-2
22. Vlasov Y A and McNab S J 2004 Losses in single-mode silicon-on-insulator strip waveguides and bends Opt. Express 12 1622-31
23. Marki I, Salt M, Herzig H P, Stanley R, Melhaoui E L, Lyan P and Fedeli J M 2005 Characterization of buried photonic crystal waveguides and microcavities fabricated by deep ultraviolet lithography J. Appl. Phys. 98 013103
24. Zhang J P, Chu D Y, Wu S L, Ho S T, Bi W G, Tu C W and Tiberio R C 1995 Photonic wire laser Phys. Rev. Lett. 75 2678-81
25. Gardes F Y, Reed G T, Emerson N G and Png C E 2005 A sub-micron depletion-type photonic modulator in silicon on insulator Opt. Express 13 8845-54
26. Reithmaier JP, Sek G, Löffler A, Hofmann C, Kuhn S, Reitzenstein S, Keldysh L V, Kulakovskii V D, Reinecke T L and Forchel A 2004 Strong coupling in a single quantum dot-semiconductor microcavity system Nature 432 197-200