High-spectral-contrast symmetric modes in photonic crystal dual nanobeam resonators

Abbaslou, Siamak; Gatdula, Robert; Lu, Ming; Stein, Aaron; Soref, Richard A.; Jiang, Wei

doi:10.1109/LPT.2016.2582641

Title: High-spectral-contrast symmetric modes in photonic crystal dual nanobeam resonators

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Here, we demonstrate accurate control of mode symmetry in suspended dual-nanobeam resonators on a silicon-on-insulator chip. Each nanobeam consists of a Fabry-Perot nanocavity bounded by tapered 1-D photonic crystals. Even and odd cavity-modes are formed due to lateral evanescent coupling between the two nanobeams. The odd cavity-mode can be excited by mode-symmetry-transforming Mach-Zehnder couplers. Modal contrasts over 27 dB are measured in fabricated structures. The influence of the optical field in the middle air slot on the background transmission and quality factors is discussed. The observed peak wavelength separations of the modes at various nanobeam spacings are in good agreement with simulation results. These nanobeam resonators are potentially useful in applications, such as ultrafast all-optical modulation, filtering, and switching.

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^[1]; Gatdula, Robert ^[1]; Lu, Ming ^[2]; Stein, Aaron ^[2]; Soref, Richard A. ^[3]; Jiang, Wei ^[1]

Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston, MA (United States)

Publication Date:: Mon Jun 20 00:00:00 EDT 2016

Research Org.:: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

OSTI Identifier:: 1337657

Report Number(s):: BNL-113327-2016-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 1041-1135; R&D Project: 16062; 16062; KC0403020

Grant/Contract Number:: SC00112704

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 28; Journal Issue: 20; Journal ID: ISSN 1041-1135

Publisher:: IEEE

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; optical resonators; cavity resonators; optical switches; Q-factor; optical filters; filtering; photonics; Center for Functional Nanomaterials; integrated optics devices; photonic crystals; silicon photonics; wavelength filtering devices; coupled resonators; all-optical devices; optical switching devices; guided waves

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                    Abbaslou, Siamak, Gatdula, Robert, Lu, Ming, Stein, Aaron, Soref, Richard A., and Jiang, Wei. High-spectral-contrast symmetric modes in photonic crystal dual nanobeam resonators.  United States: N. p., 2016. 
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                    Abbaslou, Siamak, Gatdula, Robert, Lu, Ming, Stein, Aaron, Soref, Richard A., & Jiang, Wei. High-spectral-contrast symmetric modes in photonic crystal dual nanobeam resonators.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2016.2582641

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                    Abbaslou, Siamak, Gatdula, Robert, Lu, Ming, Stein, Aaron, Soref, Richard A., and Jiang, Wei. Mon .  
"High-spectral-contrast symmetric modes in photonic crystal dual nanobeam resonators".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2016.2582641.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1337657.

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@article{osti_1337657,

  title        = {High-spectral-contrast symmetric modes in photonic crystal dual nanobeam resonators},

  author       = {Abbaslou, Siamak and Gatdula, Robert and Lu, Ming and Stein, Aaron and Soref, Richard A. and Jiang, Wei},

  abstractNote = {Here, we demonstrate accurate control of mode symmetry in suspended dual-nanobeam resonators on a silicon-on-insulator chip. Each nanobeam consists of a Fabry-Perot nanocavity bounded by tapered 1-D photonic crystals. Even and odd cavity-modes are formed due to lateral evanescent coupling between the two nanobeams. The odd cavity-mode can be excited by mode-symmetry-transforming Mach-Zehnder couplers. Modal contrasts over 27 dB are measured in fabricated structures. The influence of the optical field in the middle air slot on the background transmission and quality factors is discussed. The observed peak wavelength separations of the modes at various nanobeam spacings are in good agreement with simulation results. These nanobeam resonators are potentially useful in applications, such as ultrafast all-optical modulation, filtering, and switching.},

  doi          = {10.1109/LPT.2016.2582641},

  journal      = {IEEE Photonics Technology Letters},

  number       = 20,

  volume       = 28,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Mon Jun 20 00:00:00 EDT 2016},

  month        = {Mon Jun 20 00:00:00 EDT 2016}

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