Switchable photonic crystal cavity by liquid crystal infiltration

被引：5

作者：

Baroni, Pierre-Yves ^{[1
]}

Tan, Qing ^{[1
]}

Paeder, Vincent ^{[1
]}

Cosentino, Armando ^{[1
]}

Roussey, Matthieu ^{[1
]}

Scharf, Toralf ^{[1
]}

Herzig, Hans Peter ^{[1
]}

Nakagawa, Wataru ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, Inst Microtech, Opt & Photon Technol Lab, CH-2000 Neuchatel, Switzerland

[2] Montana State Univ, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN OPTICAL SOCIETY-RAPID PUBLICATIONS | 2010年 / 5卷

关键词：

photonics; nanostructure; photonic crystal; liquid crystal;

D O I：

10.2971/jeos.2010.10057

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We report on the fabrication and optical characterization of a switchable photonic crystal nanocavity actuated by liquid crystals. This device acts as a filter presenting a transmission peak around the telecom wavelength lambda = 1550 nm. Passing from the isotropic to the anisotropic (oriented crystals) state of the liquid crystals, a shift of Delta lambda = 13 nm has been measured, which confirms the theoretical predictions obtained by finite difference time domain simulations. We have developed a photonic crystal nanocavity that can be tuned thanks to the properties of liquid crystals infiltrated in the holes of the photonic device. [DOI: 10.2971/jeos.2010.10057]

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