• DocumentCode
    733280
  • Title

    Photocurrent-induced peak-dragging in a nanobeam photonic crystal cavity

  • Author

    Sodagar, Majid ; Miri, Mehdi ; Eftekhar, Ali Asghar ; Adibi, Ali

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate here the peak-dragging phenomenon in a nanobeam photonic crystal cavity with low optical power thresholds. In our device, Joule-heating mechanism enhances the absorption-induced heat by collecting the generated photocarries in a reverse-biased pn-junction.
  • Keywords
    p-n junctions; photoconductivity; photonic crystals; Joule-heating mechanism; nanobeam photonic crystal cavity; optical power thresholds; peak-dragging phenomenon; photocarries; photocurrent-induced peak-dragging; reverse-biased pn-junction; Cavity resonators; Heating; Nonlinear optics; Optical bistability; Optical device fabrication; Optical feedback;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7183717