Large mode-volume, large beta, photonic crystal laser resonator

Dezfouli, Mohsen Kamandar; Dignam, Marc M.

doi:10.1063/1.4897523

Title: Large mode-volume, large beta, photonic crystal laser resonator

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We propose an optical resonator formed from the coupling of 13, L2 defects in a triangular-lattice photonic crystal slab. Using a tight-binding formalism, we optimized the coupled-defect cavity design to obtain a resonator with predicted single-mode operation, a mode volume five times that of an L2-cavity mode and a beta factor of 0.39. The results are confirmed using finite-difference time domain simulations. This resonator is very promising for use as a single mode photonic crystal vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with high saturation output power compared to a laser consisting of one of the single-defect cavities.

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Dezfouli, Mohsen Kamandar; Dignam, Marc M. ^[1]

Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 (Canada)

Publication Date:: Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2014

OSTI Identifier:: 22299634

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: AIP Advances

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 4; Journal Issue: 12; Other Information: (c) 2014 Author(s); Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 2158-3226

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; CAVITIES; CRYSTALS; DEFECTS; LASERS; RESONATORS; SIMULATION; SURFACES

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                    Dezfouli, Mohsen Kamandar, and Dignam, Marc M. Large mode-volume, large beta, photonic crystal laser resonator.  United States: N. p., 2014. 
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  title        = {Large mode-volume, large beta, photonic crystal laser resonator},

  author       = {Dezfouli, Mohsen Kamandar and Dignam, Marc M.},

  abstractNote = {We propose an optical resonator formed from the coupling of 13, L2 defects in a triangular-lattice photonic crystal slab. Using a tight-binding formalism, we optimized the coupled-defect cavity design to obtain a resonator with predicted single-mode operation, a mode volume five times that of an L2-cavity mode and a beta factor of 0.39. The results are confirmed using finite-difference time domain simulations. This resonator is very promising for use as a single mode photonic crystal vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with high saturation output power compared to a laser consisting of one of the single-defect cavities.},

  doi          = {10.1063/1.4897523},

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  journal      = {AIP Advances},

  issn         = {2158-3226},

  number       = 12,

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  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2014},

  month        = {Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2014}

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