Single-material coupling-tolerant semi-planar microresonator using Littrow diffraction

Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 115-127

  Benisty, Henri ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Flat bands; Gratings; Littrow diffraction; Resonators; Slow light; Surface coupling

Indexed keywords

FLAT BANDS; GRATINGS; LITTROW DIFFRACTION; SLOW LIGHT; SURFACE COUPLING;

DIFFRACTION; PRISMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONATORS;

LIGHT;

EID: 70350072951     PISSN: 15694410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.photonics.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Vahala K.J. Optical microcavities. Nature 424 (2003) 839-847
2. Ben-Messaoud T., and Zyss J. Unidirectional laser emission from polymer-based spiral microdisks. Appl. Phys. Lett. 86 (2005) 241110
3. Dubertrand R., Bogomolny E., Djellali N., Lebental M., and Schmit C. Circular dielectric cavity and its deformations. Phys. Rev. A 77 (2008) 013804 (1-16)
4. Gayral B., Gérard J.M., Lemaître A., Dupuis C., Manin L., and Pelouard J.L. High-Q wet-etched GaAs micropillars containing InAs quantum boxes. Appl. Phys. Lett. 75 (2001) 1908-1910
5. Watts M.R., Johnson S.G., Haus H.A., and Joannopoulos J. Electromagnetic cavity with arbitrary Q and small modal volume without a complete photonic bandgap. Opt. Lett. 27 (2002) 1785-1787
6. Karalis A., Johnson S.G., and Joannopoulos J.D. Discrete-mode cancellation mechanism for high-Q integrated optical cavities with small modal volume. Opt. Lett. 29 (2004) 2309-2311
7. Reitzenstein S., Hofmann C., Gorbunov A., Strauß M., Kwon S.H., Schneider C., Löffler A., Höfling S., Kamp M., and Forchel A. AlAs/GaAs micropillar cavities with quality factors exceeding 150.000. Appl. Phys. Lett. 90 (2007) 251109
8. Born M., and Wolf E. Principles of Optics (1999), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
9. Boriskina S.V., Benson T.M., Sewell P., and Nosich A.I. Optical modes in 2-D imperfect square and triangular microcavities. IEEE J. Quant. Electron. 41 (2005) 857-862
10. Boriskina S.V., Benson T.M., Sewell P., and Nosich A.I. Q factor and emission pattern control of the WG modes in notched microdisk resonators. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quant. Electron. 12 (2006) 52-58
11. Boriskina S.V., Benson T.M., Sewell P., and Nosich A.I. Directional emission, increased free spectral range, and mode Q-factors in 2-D wavelength-scale optical microcavity structures. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quant. Electron. 12 (2006) 1175-1182
12. Rex N.B., Tureci H.E., Schwefel H.G.L., Chang R.K., and Stone A.D. Fresnel filtering in lasing emission from scarred modes of wave-chaotic optical resonators. Phys. Rev. Lett. 88 (2002) 094102
13. Guo W.H., Huang Y.Z., Lu Q.Y., and Yu L.J. Whispering-gallery-like modes in square resonators. IEEE J. Quant. Electron. 39 (2003) 1106-1110
14. Huang Y.Z., Guo W.H., and Wang Q.M. Analysis and numerical simulation of eigenmode characteristics for semiconductor lasers with an equilateral triangle micro-resonator. IEEE J. Quant. Electron. 37 (2001) 100-107
15. Van Laere F., Claes T., Schrauwen J., Scheerlinck S., Bogaerts W., Taillaert D., O'Faolain L., Van Thourhout D., and Baets R. Compact focusing grating couplers for silicon-on-insulator integrated circuits. IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 19 (2007) 1919-1921
16. Kurt H., Benisty H., Melo T., Khayam O., and Cambournac C. Slow-light regime and critical coupling in highly multimode corrugated waveguides. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 25 (2008) C1-C14
17. Kim S.H., Kim S.K., and Lee Y.H. Vertical beaming of wavelength-scale photonic crystal resonators. Phys. Rev. B 73 (2006) 235117
18. Song B.-S., Noda S., Asano T., and Akahane Y. Ultra-high-Q photonic double-heterostructure nanocavity. Nat. Mater. 4 (2005) 207-210
19. Akahane Y., Asano T., Song B.-S., and Noda S. High-Q photonic nanocavity in a two-dimensional photonic crystal. Nature 425 (2003) 944-947
20. Hwang I.-K., Kim G.H., and Lee Y.H. Optimization of coupling between photonic crystal resonator and curved microfiber. IEEE J. Quant. Electron. 42 (2006) 131-136
21. Khayam O., Cambournac C., Benisty H., Ayre M., Brenot H., Duan G.H., and Pernice W. In-plane Littrow lasing of broad photonic crystal waveguides. Appl. Phys. Lett. 91 (2007) 041111 (1-3)
22. Khayam O., Benisty H., and Cambournac C. Experimental observation of minigap stripes in periodically corrugated broad photonic wires. Phys. Rev. B 78 (2008) 153107 (4)
23. Martinelli L., Benisty H., Khayam O., Duan G.H., Heidrich H., and Janiak K. Analysis and optimization of compact demultiplexer monitor based on photonic crystal waveguide. IEEE J. Lightwave Technol. 25 (2007) 2385-2394
24. Olivier S., Benisty H., Smith C.J.M., Rattier M., Weisbuch C., and Krauss T.F. Transmission properties of two-dimensional photonic crystal channel waveguides. Opt. Quant. Electron. 34 (2002) 171-181
25. Olivier S., Rattier M., Benisty H., Smith C.J.M., De La Rue R.M., Krauss T.F., Oesterle U., Houdré R., and Weisbuch C. Mini stopbands of a one-dimensional system: the channel waveguide in a two-dimensional photonic crystal. Phys. Rev. B 63 (2001) 113311 (1-6)
26. See http://www.photond.com/products/crystalwave.htm.
27. Zheng J., Zhou C., Feng J., and Wang B. Polarizing beam splitter of deep-etched triangular-groove fused-silica gratings. Opt. Lett. 33 (2008) 1554-1556
28. Yariv A., Xu Y., Lee R.K., and Scherer A. Coupled-resonator optical waveguide: a proposal and analysis. Opt. Lett. 24 (1999) 711-713
29. Johnson S.G., Fan S., Mekis A., and Joannopoulos J.D. Multipole-cancellation mechanism for high-Q cavities in the absence of a complete photonic band gap. Appl. Phys. Lett. 78 (2001) 3388-3390