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Fabrication And Characterization Of Photonic Crystal Slow Light Waveguides And Cavities
Published on: November 30, 2012
Ultra-high-Q TE/TM dual-polarized photonic crystal nanocavities
Yinan Zhang1, Murray W McCutcheon, Ian B Burgess
1School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. yinan@seas.harvard.edu
Optics Letters
|September 3, 2009
Abstract:
We demonstrate photonic crystal nanobeam cavities that support both TE- and TM-polarized modes, each with a Q factor greater than one million and a mode volume on the order of the cubic wavelength. We show that these orthogonally polarized modes have a tunable frequency separation and a high nonlinear spatial overlap. We expect these cavities to have a variety of applications in resonance-enhanced nonlinear optics.
