Enabling single-mode behavior over large areas with photonic Dirac cones
Abstract
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.
- Authors:
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- Autonomous Univ. of Madrid (Spain)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1386837
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0001299; FG02-09ER46577; DMR-0819762
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 109; Journal Issue: 25; Related Information: S3TEC partners with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (lead); Boston College; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Journal ID: ISSN 0027-8424
- Publisher:
- National Academy of Sciences
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
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Bravo-Abad, J., Joannopoulos, J. D., and Soljacic, M. Enabling single-mode behavior over large areas with photonic Dirac cones. United States: N. p., 2012.
Web. doi:10.1073/pnas.1207335109.
Bravo-Abad, J., Joannopoulos, J. D., & Soljacic, M. Enabling single-mode behavior over large areas with photonic Dirac cones. United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1207335109
Bravo-Abad, J., Joannopoulos, J. D., and Soljacic, M. Mon .
"Enabling single-mode behavior over large areas with photonic Dirac cones". United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1207335109. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1386837.
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title = {Enabling single-mode behavior over large areas with photonic Dirac cones},
author = {Bravo-Abad, J. and Joannopoulos, J. D. and Soljacic, M.},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.1207335109},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
number = 25,
volume = 109,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jun 04 00:00:00 EDT 2012},
month = {Mon Jun 04 00:00:00 EDT 2012}
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