Title :
Localization of light at vanishingly small disorder-levels with heavy photons
Author :
Baron, A. ; Faggiani, R. ; Zang, X. ; Lalouat, L. ; Schulz, S.A. ; Vynck, K. ; O´Regan, B. ; Cluzel, B. ; de Fornel, F. ; Krauss, T.F. ; Lalanne, P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Duke Univ., Durham, NC, USA
Abstract :
We show that the key parameter driving the spatial extent of localized modes formed in randomly-perturbed periodic media near the band edge is the effective photon mass rather than the group index.
Keywords :
nanophotonics; photonic band gap; photonic crystals; quantum optics; random processes; band edge; effective photon mass; light localization; randomly-perturbed periodic media; Geometry; Indexes; Microscopy; Nonhomogeneous media; Optical waveguides; Photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
