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Fabrication And Characterization Of Photonic Crystal Slow Light Waveguides And Cavities
Published on: November 30, 2012
Novel, low-index waveguide as laser external cavity
Alexandre Horth1, Nathaniel J Quitoriano
1Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Optics Express
|May 9, 2012
Abstract:
Here we present a novel waveguide providing > 70% optical power confinement in a relatively small area, 0.12μm2, which could be used to fabricate quantum dot or other sub-wavelength-sized active regions, modulators or detectors on Si. This structure forms a novel, low-index waveguide which can be engineered to have properties similar to high-index or slot waveguides, showing that there is in fact a continuum between these two waveguides.
