High-Q cavities in multilayer photonic crystal slabs.
We propose a novel concept for creating high-Q cavities in photonic crystal slabs (PCS). These cavities are formed by depositing a polymer layer on top of a photonic crystal membrane fabricated in a high index semiconductor slab. We show that such multilayer structures exhibit a mode-gap and can yield high-Q microcavities with quality factors of Q approximately 106. This allows the cavity to be created by polymer processing, following the much more demanding semiconductor processing that is used to generate a uniform PCS. Depending on the polymer used, these structures can be additionally tuned using photosensitivity or the electro-optic effect.
Tomljenovic-Hanic
Snjezana
S
de Sterke
C M
CM
Steel
M J
MJ
Eggleton
Benjamin J
BJ
Tanaka
Yoshinori
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Noda
Susumu
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