Demonstrations of an air-slot photonic crystal nanocavity with ultrasmall mode volumes for enhanced light-matter interactions

Author

Gao, Jie ; Yang, Xiaodong ; Wong, Chee Wei ; Green, William M J ; Vlasov, Yurii ; Assefa, Solomon

Author_Institution

Opt. Nanostruct. Lab., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We demonstrate experimentally a photonic crystal nanocavity with an ultrasmall modal volume of 10^-2(lambda/n)³, based on a designed air-slot in a two-dimensional photonic crystal lattice. Coupling to the tightly localized nanocavity of the fabricated sample is achieved with the tapered fiber, with strong applications to nonlinear optics and cavity quantum electrodynamics studies.

Keywords

nanophotonics; nonlinear optics; optical fibre fabrication; optical lattices; optical materials; photonic crystals; quantum optics; 2D photonic crystal lattice; air-slot photonic crystal; cavity quantum electrodynamics; enhanced light-matter interaction; nanocavity; nonlinear optics; tapered fiber fabrication; Electrodynamics; Fiber nonlinear optics; Lattices; Nonlinear optics; Optical coupling; Optical resonators; Photonic crystals; Silicon; Slabs; Stimulated emission; (230.5298) Photonic crystals; (230.5750) optical resonators; (270.5580) Quantum electrodynamics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5224307