Title :
Engineering metallic nanocavity radiation for efficient uni-/bi-directional coupling into integrated waveguide
Author :
Myung-Ki Kim ; Zheng Li ; Going, Ryan ; Wu, Ming C. ; Hyuck Choo
Author_Institution :
Moore Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
Abstract :
We propose a new, simple way to engineer the radiation patterns of subwavelength-scale metallic semiconductor cavities for coupling light from a nanoscale metal cavity into integrated waveguides uni-/bi-directionally with efficiency up to ~90%.
Keywords :
integrated optics; nanophotonics; optical directional couplers; optical waveguides; plasmonics; bidirectional coupling; integrated waveguide; light coupling; metallic nanocavity radiation; nanoscale metal cavity; radiation patterns; subwavelength-scale metallic semiconductor cavities; unidirectional coupling; Antenna radiation patterns; Bidirectional control; Cavity resonators; Couplings; Optical waveguides; Q-factor; Semiconductor waveguides;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
