Oskar Painter et al 2001 J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 3 S161 doi:10.1088/1464-4258/3/6/367
Oskar Painter1,3, Kartik Srinivasan1, John D O'Brien2, Axel Scherer1 and P Daniel Dapkus2
Show affiliationsOptically thin dielectric slabs, in which a fully etched-through two-dimensional patterning is applied, are used to form high-Q optical cavities with modal volumes approaching the theoretical limit of a cubic half-wavelength. Resonant cavities are formed from local defect regions within the photonic lattice. Simple group theoretical techniques are developed to design cavities which support resonant modes with a particular polarization and radiation pattern. Numerical simulations using the finite-difference time-domain method are then used to study the detailed emission and loss properties of these modes. The cavities are probed spectroscopically through photoluminescence measurements, which when compared with numerical results show the presence of both donor and acceptor type modes. These experimental results show the predictive power of the modest symmetry analysis presented here in describing highly localized defect states within photonic crystals.
42.70.Qs Photonic bandgap materials
02.70.Bf Finite-difference methods
71.55.-i Impurity and defect levels
42.55.Px Semiconductor lasers; laser diodes
42.82.Et Waveguides, couplers, and arrays
Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical
Issue 6 (November 2001)
Received 9 August 2001, in final form 28 September 2001
Published 26 October 2001
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