Guided-mode resonance mirrors for vertical cavities

Author

Ura, Shogo ; Kondo, Tomohiro ; Kintaka, Kenji ; Inoue, Junichi ; Magnusson, Robert

Author_Institution

Kyoto Inst. of Technol., Kyoto, Japan

fYear

2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A guided-mode resonance mirror (GMRM) is introduced as a combination of a guide-mode resonance filter (GMRF) and a high reflection substrate. GMRF consists of a waveguide grating on a transparent substrate and couples an incident free-space wave of resonance wavelength to a guided mode to show a narrow band reflection spectrum as well as large wavelength dependence of the reflection phase. The combination results in a formation of a vertical cavity for the resonance wavelength. GMRM is expected to be an attractive external mirror for a laser system because of its unique reflection characteristics. In this paper, theoretical analysis of reflection characteristics of GMRM is given with preliminarily experimental results of an aperture-miniaturized GMRM. Design consideration of GMRM for a cavity formation is also discussed.

Keywords

arrayed waveguide gratings; integrated optics; light reflection; mirrors; optical filters; optical resonators; guide-mode resonance filter; guided-mode resonance mirrors; laser system; vertical cavities; waveguide grating; Cavity resonators; Gratings; Mirrors; Optical fiber filters; Optical waveguides; Reflection; Reflectivity; external mirrors; gratings; guided mode resonance; narrow band filters; optical cavities; waveguides;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2015 17th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Budapest

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2015.7193703

Filename

7193703