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Fabrication And Characterization Of Photonic Crystal Slow Light Waveguides And Cavities
Published on: November 30, 2012
Impedance matching in photonic crystal microcavities for second-harmonic generation
Andrea Di Falco1, Claudio Conti, Gaetano Assanto
1Nonlinear Optics and OptoElectronics Laboratory, Department of Electronic Engineering and INFM-CNISM, University Roma Tre, Rome, Italy. difalco@ele.uniroma3.it
Abstract:
By numerically integrating the three-dimensional Maxwell equations in the time domain with reference to a dispersive quadratically nonlinear material, we study second-harmonic generation in planar photonic crystal microresonators. The proposed scheme allows efficient coupling of the pump radiation to the defect resonant mode. The outcoupled generated second harmonic is maximized by impedance matching the photonic crystal cavity to the output waveguide.

