Extreme optical confinement in a slotted photonic crystal waveguide
Abstract
Using Optical Coherence Tomography, we measure the attenuation of slow light modes in slotted photonic crystal waveguides. When the group index is close to 20, the attenuation is below 300 dB cm{sup −1}. Here, the optical confinement in the empty slot is very strong, corresponding to an ultra-small effective cross section of 0.02 μm{sup 2}. This is nearly 10 times below the diffraction limit at λ = 1.5 μm, and it enables an effective interaction with a very small volume of functionalized matter.
- Authors:
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- Institut d'Électronique Fondamentale, Université Paris-Sud CNRS UMR 8622 Bat. 220, Centre scientifique d'Orsay, 91405 Orsay (France)
- Thales Research and Technology, 1 Av. Augustin Fresnel, 91767 Palaiseau (France)
- Publication Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 22350741
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal Name:
- Applied Physics Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 105; Journal Issue: 12; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; ATTENUATION; CONFINEMENT; CROSS SECTIONS; CRYSTALS; DIFFRACTION; INTERACTIONS; TOMOGRAPHY; VISIBLE RADIATION; WAVEGUIDES
Citation Formats
Caër, Charles, Le Roux, Xavier, Cassan, Eric, Combrié, Sylvain, and De Rossi, Alfredo. Extreme optical confinement in a slotted photonic crystal waveguide. United States: N. p., 2014.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.4896413.
Caër, Charles, Le Roux, Xavier, Cassan, Eric, Combrié, Sylvain, & De Rossi, Alfredo. Extreme optical confinement in a slotted photonic crystal waveguide. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4896413
Caër, Charles, Le Roux, Xavier, Cassan, Eric, Combrié, Sylvain, and De Rossi, Alfredo. 2014.
"Extreme optical confinement in a slotted photonic crystal waveguide". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4896413.
@article{osti_22350741,
title = {Extreme optical confinement in a slotted photonic crystal waveguide},
author = {Caër, Charles and Le Roux, Xavier and Cassan, Eric and Combrié, Sylvain and De Rossi, Alfredo},
abstractNote = {Using Optical Coherence Tomography, we measure the attenuation of slow light modes in slotted photonic crystal waveguides. When the group index is close to 20, the attenuation is below 300 dB cm{sup −1}. Here, the optical confinement in the empty slot is very strong, corresponding to an ultra-small effective cross section of 0.02 μm{sup 2}. This is nearly 10 times below the diffraction limit at λ = 1.5 μm, and it enables an effective interaction with a very small volume of functionalized matter.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4896413},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22350741},
journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
issn = {0003-6951},
number = 12,
volume = 105,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Sep 22 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Mon Sep 22 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}
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