title: Heavy photon states in photonic chains of resonantly coupled cavities with supermonodispersive microspheres.
abstract: We propose and demonstrate a "bottom-up" approach to constructing photonic structures for photon manipulation. Supermonodispersive polymer microspheres are used as building blocks and a size uniformity better than 0.05% could be obtained by sorting the spheres using spectroscopic methods. The spheres are positioned in a V groove on a silicon substrate and form a photonic chain with resonant coupling of the optical whispering-gallery modes. Photonic band modes are clearly observed in fluorescence and resonant scattering spectra, and an excellent agreement with a tight-binding model calculation is found. Heavy photon states and a group index as high as 40 are obtained.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo and SORST, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.
authors.forename: Yoshiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hara
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mukaiyama
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takeda
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kuwata-Gonokami