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Photonic Crystal Nanobeam Cavities

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Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology

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Photonic crystal nanobeam cavities are high quality factor, small mode volume optical resonators formed by using photonic crystal Bragg mirrors in the longitudinal direction and total internal reflection in the others.

Introduction

On-chip manipulation of light is of great importance for applications ranging from optoelectronics and nonlinear optics to biochemical sensing and cavity quantum electrodynamics. Ultra-high quality factor (Q) optical resonators are indispensable for these applications since they enhance the probability of light-matter interaction due to their ability to store photons for many optical cycles [1]. Traveling-wave-based resonators, and micro-toroid resonators in particular, have been used to achieve some of the largest Q factors to date [1]. For many applications, however, the figure of merit is proportional to the ratio between resonator’s Q and mode volume (Vmode), which can be quite large in traveling-wave geometries. Therefore, standing-wave...

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  1. Electrical Engineering, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 33 Oxford Street, Maxwell-Dworkin 127, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA

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Deotare, P.B., Loncar, M. (2012). Photonic Crystal Nanobeam Cavities. In: Bhushan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9751-4_291

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