Enabling single-mode behavior over large areas with photonic Dirac cones

Bravo-Abad, J.; Joannopoulos, J. D.; Soljacic, M.

doi:10.1073/pnas.1207335109

Title: Enabling single-mode behavior over large areas with photonic Dirac cones

Journal Article · Mon Jun 04 00:00:00 EDT 2012 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1207335109· OSTI ID:1386837

Bravo-Abad, J. ^[1]; Joannopoulos, J. D. ^[2]; Soljacic, M. ^[2]

Autonomous Univ. of Madrid (Spain)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

Many of graphene’s unique electronic properties emerge from its Dirac-like electronic energy spectrum. Similarly, it is expected that a nanophotonic system featuring Dirac dispersion (two conical bands touching at a single point, the so-called Dirac point) will open a path to a number of important research avenues. To date, yet, all proposed realizations of a photonic analog of graphene lack fully omnidirectional out-of-plane light confinement, which has prevented creating truly realistic implementations of this class of systems able to mimic the two-dimensional transport properties of graphene. In this work we report on a novel route to achieve all-dielectric three-dimensional photonic materials featuring Dirac-like dispersion in a quasi-two-dimensional system. We also discuss how this finding could enable a dramatic enhancement of the spontaneous emission coupling efficiency (the β-factor) over large areas, defying the common wisdom that the β-factor degrades rapidly as the size of the system increases. These findings might enable general new classes of large-area ultralow-threshold lasers, single-photon sources, quantum information processing devices and energy harvesting systems.

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Research Organization:: Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0001299; FG02-09ER46577; DMR-0819762

OSTI ID:: 1386837

Journal Information:: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 109, Issue 25; Related Information: S3TEC partners with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (lead); Boston College; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; ISSN 0027-8424

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