纳米三明治结构光子超材料中电磁场振荡行为研究

对金属-介质-金属的三层纳米三明治结构中的磁性等离子体模式特性进行了时域有限差分数值计算分析,并给出该类谐振器的品质因数变化规律.基于纳米三明治结构中的磁性等离子体模式对该种结构进行设计,研究几何构型参数以及介质材料折射率对磁性等离子体模式的调控规律.以电感电容等效电路近似理论对纳米三明治结构磁性等离子体模式谐振频率的变化规律进行理论解释,理论解释与数值计算结果符合很好.同时还研究了纳米三明治振荡器对电磁能量的限制,并从热和辐射两方面分析了该类结构的品质因数变化情况,可为基于磁性等离子体模式的新型波导及激光器结构的设计提供指导.     

Slow Light Effect and Multimode Lasing in a Photonic Crystal Waveguide Microlaser

The slow light effect in a photonic crystal waveguide is investigated theoretically and experimentally. Theoretical calculation indicates that there is a slow light region for the even mode, from which the resonance and lasing in a microcavity would benefit. A photonic crystal waveguide microlaser is fabricated, which is related to the group velocity of c/120.6.     

High Polarization Single Mode Photonic Crystal Microlaser

Generally, dipole mode is a doubly degenerate mode. Theoretical calculations have indicated that the single dipole mode of two-dimensional photonic crystal single point defect cavity shows high polarization property. We present a structure with elongated lattice, which only supports a single y-dipole mode. With this structure we can eliminate the degeneracy, control the lasing action of the cavity and demonstrate the high polarization property of the single dipole mode. In our experiment, the polarization extinction ratio of the y-dipole mode is as high as 51：1.     

Large spot size and low-divergence angle operation of 917-nm edge-emitting semiconductor laser with an asymmetric waveguide structure

GaInAs/AlGaAs comprehensive-strained three-quantum-well lasers with asymmetric waveguide are designed and optimized. With this design, the optical field in the transverse direction is extended, and a semiconductor laser with large spot is obtained. For a 300-μm cavity length and 100-μm aperture device under continuous wave (CW) operation, the measured vertical and horizontal far-field divergence angles are 12.2° and 3.0°, respectively. The slope efficiency is 0.44 W/A and the lasing wavelength is 917 nm.The equivalent transverse spot size is 3 μm for the fundamental transverse mode, which is a sufficiently large value for the purpose of coupling and manipulation of light.     

光子晶体波导对垂直腔面发射激光器光束远场形貌的调控

研究了光子晶体波导对垂直腔面发射激光器(VCSEL)光束远场形貌的调控.采用三层对称平板波导模型分析了影响光子晶体VCSEL(PC-VCSEL)远场发散角的参数.研究表明,PC-VCSEL中光子晶体的填充比(空气孔直径和光子晶体周期的比值)以及空气孔的刻蚀深度控制了光束的发散角,低填充比和浅刻蚀的PC-VCSEL有利于获得低发散角的光束.设计并制作了两种不同结构参数的PC-VCSEL,这两种器件中光子晶体的填充比和空气孔的刻蚀深度不同.实验结果表明,低填充比和浅刻蚀的PC-VCSEL的发散角更低,与理论分析符合得很好.     

立体耦合光子晶体薄板微腔的高Q值特性研究

利用微腔之间的立体耦合,提出了基于无源材料硅的双层光子晶体薄板H1(DLPCS-H1)腔,薄板之间为空气层.使用三维时域有限差分方法和Padé近似方法分析了DLPCS-H1腔的偶极模的场分布和品质因子.通过对中间空气层高度的优化使DLPCS-H1腔的偶极模的品质因子得到了显著的提高,大约为单层光子晶体薄板H1腔的偶极模的品质因子的4倍.此外,还研究了三层光子晶体薄板H1腔,它的偶极模的品质因子约为单层光子晶体薄板H1腔的偶极模的品质因子的7倍.     

Spontaneous-emission control by local density of states of photonic crystal cavity

The local density of states (LDOS) of two-dimensional square lattice photonic crystal (PhC) defect cavity is studied.The results show that the LDOS in the centre is greatly reduced,while the LDOS at the point off the centre (for example,at the point (0.3a,0.4a),where a is the lattice constant) is extremely enhanced.Further,the disordered radii are introduced to imitate the real devices fabricated in our experiment,and then we study the LDOS of PhC cavity with configurations of different disordered radii.The results show that in the disordered cavity,the LDOS in the centre is still greatly reduced,while the LDOS at the point (0.3a,0.4a) is still extremely enhanced.It shows that the LDOS analysis is useful.When a laser is designed on the basis of the square lattice PhC rod cavity,in order to enhance the spontaneous emission,the active materials should not be inserted in the centre of the cavity,but located at positions off the centre.So LDOS method gives a guide to design the positions of the active materials (quantum dots) in the lasers.     

Magnetic plasmon mode resonance and power transmission in a nanosandwich waveguide

The magnetic plasmon (MP) modes in the metal-dielectric-metal nanosandwich structure are investigated nu-merically,and the principle of energy resonance in such a resonator is proposed.An equivalent inductance capacitance circuit analysis method is proposed and the results are in agreement with the numerical simulations.Based on the MP resonance in such a structure,a nanosandwich chain waveguide is designed.Gold and silver are chosen as the metal materials.The power transmission efficiency of the nanosandwich waveguide can be as high as 0.546 in a specific nanosandwich unit cell,even when the metal absorption loss is large,which is the perspective of the new waveguides and lasers based on MP modes.     

Graded index profiles and loss-induced single-mode characteristics in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with petal-shape holey structure

The 850-nm oxide-confined vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with petal-shape holey structures are presented.An area-weighted average refractive index model is given to analyse their effective index profiles,and the graded index distribution in the holey region is demonstrated.The index step between the optical aperture and the holey region is obtained which is related merely to the etching depth.Four types of holey vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with different parameters are fabricated as well as the conventional oxide-confined vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser.Compared with the conventional oxide-confined vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser without etched holes,the holey vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser possesses an improved beam quality due to its graded index distribution,but has a lower output power,higher threshold current and lower slope efficiency.With the hole number increased,the holey vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser can realize the single-mode operation throughout the entire current range,and reduces the beam divergence further.The loss mechanism is used to explain the single-mode characteristic,and the reduced beam divergence is attributed to the shallow etching.High coupling efficiency of 86% to a multi-mode fibre is achieved for the single-mode device in the experiment.