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Design of photonic crystal microcavities for cavity QED
Jelena Vucković1, Marko Loncar, Hideo Mabuchi
1California Institute of Technology, Mail Code 136-93, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|January 22, 2002
Abstract:
We discuss the optimization of optical microcavity designs based on two-dimensional photonic crystals for the purpose of strong coupling between the cavity field and a single neutral atom trapped within a hole. We present numerical predictions for the quality factors and mode volumes of localized defect modes as a function of geometric parameters, and discuss some experimental challenges related to the coupling of a defect cavity to gas-phase atoms.