Semiconductor photonic crystal nanostructure

Author

Baba, Toshihiko

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Yokohama Nat. Univ., Japan

fYear

2003

fDate

18-21 Aug. 2003

Firstpage

103

Lastpage

104

Abstract

Photonic crystals are expected to realize various novel performance and functions in photonic devices, such as ultralow threshold lasing in nanolasers, high efficiency light extraction from LEDs, flexible optical wirings by ultrasmall waveguide elements, unique light localization and radiation in defects, high resolution filtering and wide angle deflection of light by the superprism phenomenon, and strong nonlinear response by an ultrasmall group velocity of light at a photonic band-edge. All these have been theoretically investigated and partly demonstrated in the experiment. Most popular structures in the experiment are the photonic crystal slab as a 2-D crystal and the woodpile structure as a 3-D crystal, both of which are fabricated by simple MEMS technologies.

Keywords

integrated optics; light emitting diodes; micro-optics; micromechanical devices; nanostructured materials; nanotechnology; optical fabrication; optical filters; optical waveguide components; photonic band gap; photonic crystals; semiconductor lasers; 2-D crystal; 3-D crystal; LED; MEMS technologies; flexible optical wirings; high resolution filtering; light extraction; light localization; nanolasers; photonic band-edge; photonic crystal slab; photonic crystals; photonic devices; semiconductor nanostructure; superprism phenomenon; ultralow threshold lasing; ultrasmall waveguide elements; woodpile structure; Light emitting diodes; Nanoscale devices; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical devices; Optical filters; Optical waveguide theory; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals; Wiring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical MEMS, 2003 IEEE/LEOS International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7830-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OMEMS.2003.1233487

Filename

1233487