title: Disorder-induced losses in planar photonic crystals.
abstract: The phenomenological approach introduced by Benisty [Appl. Phys. Lett. 76, 532 (2000)] to model out-of-plane radiation losses in planar photonic crystals with a low vertical refractive index contrast is extended to the case of in-plane disorder. The model is experimentally validated by means of optical measurements on GaAs-based structures. For the present fabrication techniques the disorder-induced contribution is found to be negligible compared with the other loss mechanisms.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Photonique et d'Electronique Quantique, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. rolando.ferrini@epfl.ch
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ferrini
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Leuenberger
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Houdré
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Benisty
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kamp
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authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Forchel