title: Coupled-resonator-induced reflection in photonic-crystal waveguide structures.
abstract: We study the resonant transmission of light in a coupled-resonator optical waveguide interacting with two nearly identical side cavities. We reveal and describe a novel effect of the coupled-resonator-induced reflection (CRIR) characterized by a very high and easily tunable quality factor of the reflection line, for the case of the inter-site coupling between the cavities and the waveguide. This effect differs sharply from the coupled-resonator-induced transparency (CRIT)--an all-optical analogue of the electromagnetically-induced transparency--which has recently been studied theoretically and experimentally for the structures based on micro-ring resonators and photonic crystal cavities. Both CRIR and CRIT effects have the same physical origin which can be attributed to the Fano-Feshbach resonances in the systems exhibiting more than one resonance. We discuss the applicability of the novel CRIR effect to the control of the slow-light propagation and low-threshold all-optical switching.
authors.affiliation: VPI Development Center, Belarus High Technologies Park, Minsk, Belarus.
authors.forename: Sergei F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Mingaleev
authors.forename: Andrey E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Miroshnichenko
authors.forename: Yuri S
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Kivshar
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D003461:Crystallography / Q000379:methods*; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D008027:Light; D008420:Manufactured Materials; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D055095:Optics and Photonics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D017785:Photons; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D014159:Transducers