Control of light emission by 3D photonic crystals.
Three-dimensional (3D) photonic crystals containing artificial point defects have been fabricated to emit light at optical communications wavelengths. They were constructed by stacking 0.7-micrometer-period gallium arsenide striped layers, resulting in a 3D "woodpile" photonic crystal. Indium-gallium arsenide-phosphide quantum-well layers emitting at a wavelength of 1.55 micrometers were incorporated in the center of the crystal. Samples having up to nine stacked layers were constructed, and artificial point-defect cavities of different sizes were formed in the light-emitting layer. Light emission was suppressed in the photonic crystal regions, whereas cavity modes were successfully observed at the point defects and were size dependent.
Ogawa
Shinpei
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Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan.
Imada
Masahiro
M
Yoshimoto
Susumu
S
Okano
Makoto
M
Noda
Susumu
S