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Published on: November 30, 2012
High quality factor in a two-dimensional photonic crystal cavity on silicon-on-insulator
Zheng Han1, Xavier Checoury, Laurent-Daniel Haret
1Institut d’Électronique Fondamentale (UMR CNRS 8622), Université Paris-Sud 11, Bâtiment 220, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France. zheng.han@ief.u‐psud.fr
Optics Letters
|May 20, 2011
Abstract:
We propose a design for high quality factor two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystal cavities on silicon-on-insulator (SOI). A quality factor of up to 1.2×10(7) with a modal volume of 2.35(λ/n)(3) is simulated. A very high quality factor of 200,000 is experimentally demonstrated for a 2D cavity fabricated on SOI.

