Dispersion engineering of slow light photonic crystal waveguides using microfluidic infiltration

被引：115

作者：

Ebnali-Heidari, M. ^{[1
,2
]}

Grillet, C. ^{[1
]}

Monat, C. ^{[1
]}

Eggleton, B. J. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] CUDOS, Sch Phys, IPOS, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

[2] TMU, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Tehran 1411713116, Iran

来源：

OPTICS EXPRESS | 2009年 / 17卷 / 03期

基金：

澳大利亚研究理事会;

关键词：

BAND;

D O I：

10.1364/OE.17.001628

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We present a technique based on the selective liquid infiltration of photonic crystal (PhC) waveguides to produce very small dispersion slow light over a substantial bandwidth. We numerically demonstrate that this approach allows one to control the group velocity (from c/20 to c/110) from a single PhC waveguide design, simply by choosing the index of the liquid to infiltrate. In addition, we show that this method is tolerant to deviations in the PhC parameters such as the hole size, which relaxes the constraint on the PhC fabrication accuracy as compared to previous structural-based methods for slow light dispersion engineering. (C) 2009 Optical Society of America

引用

页码：1628 / 1635

页数：8

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