title: Enhanced photonic crystal cavity-waveguide coupling using local slow-light engineering.
abstract: This Letter introduces an enhanced cavity-waveguide coupling architecture based upon slow-light engineering in a two-port photonic crystal system. After analyzing the system transmittance using coupled-mode theory, the system is probed experimentally and shown to have increased transmittance due to the enhanced cavity-waveguide coupling. Such a coupling architecture may facilitate next-generation planar lightwave circuitry such as onchip quantum information processing or high precision light-matter sensing applications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. khaled.mnaymneh@gmail.com
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mnaymneh
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Frédérick
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dalacu
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lapointe
authors.forename: P J
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authors.lastname: Poole
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authors.lastname: Williams