Large range of omni-directional reflection in 1D photonic crystal heterostructures

A simple design of one-dimensional omni-directional reflector based on photonic crystal heterostructures structure has been proposed. The proposed structure consists of a periodic array of alternate layers of SiO₂ and Te as the materials of low and high refractive indices, respectively. The structure considered here has three stacks of periodic structures having five layers each. The lattice period of successive stack is increased by a certain multiple (say gradual constant, δ) of the lattice period of the just preceding stack. For numerical computation, the method of transfer matrix method (TMM) has been employed. It is found that such a structure has wider reflection bands in comparison to a conventional dielectric PC structure and the width of the omni-directional reflection (ODR) bands can be enlarged by increasing the value of the gradual constant δ.     

Enhanced omni-directional reflection frequency range in Si-based one dimensional photonic crystal with defect

In the present communication, we study omni-directional reflection in one-dimensional photonic crystal (PC) based on Si/SiO₂ multilayered structure. It has been shown numerically that it is possible to enhance the range of omni-directional reflection in one-dimensional photonic crystal appreciably by introducing a defect in the multilayered structure.     

Optimizing the spectral efficiency of photonic quantum well structures

One can construct photonic single quantum well structures by sandwiching a homogeneous medium slab as a defect between two symmetrical photonic crystals (PCs). It is shown that the number of observed resonant peaks increases with increasing slab thickness. It is found that while the slab is composed of alternatively stacked step-index films, the frequencies of these resonant peaks can be adjusted finely by changing the film thickness properly. In this case, the frequency and frequency interval of confined states can be tuned accurately, and the spectral efficiency can be greatly enhanced without increasing the volume of optical devices. Numerical simulation is based on the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method.     

Light propagation characteristics in quantum well structures of photonic crystals

Two-dimensional （2D） closed-cavity single quantum well （SQW） and multiple quantum well （MQW） structures are proposed based on the traditional 2D open-cavity SQW structures of photonic crystals. The numerical calculation results show that the proposed structures can greatly improve the optical characteristics compared with the traditional structures. It is found that the barrier thickness has a great impact on the optical characteristics of the closed-cavity MQW structures： when the barrier thickness is narrower, each resonant peak which appears in the SQW would split, the number of split times is just equal to the number of wells, and each well in the MQW structures is a travelling-wave-well, similar to the well in the open-cavity SQW structures; when the barrier thickness is wider, there is no effect of spectral splitting, and each well in the MQW structures is a standing-wave-well, just like the well in the closed-cavity SQW. The physical origin of different field distributions and the effect of the spectral splitting are provided.     

含特异材料的光量子阱频率特性研究

基于传输线加载集总元件的方法制备光量子阱. 对阱内物质为光子晶体和左手材料两种情况下的传输特性进行比对. 结果表明局域模个数与阱内物质的周期数相同; 左手材料情况下光量子阱具有尺度小、 便于调节的优点.实验结果与理论结果相符合.     

单负材料组成一维光子晶体双量子阱结构的共振模

通过传输矩阵方法, 计算模拟了两种单负材料组成一维光子晶体双量子阱结构的透射谱. 研究发现: 由于双量子阱结构双阱之间的相互耦合作用, 共振模发生双重劈裂, 共振峰之间的距离可以通过调节双阱之间的耦合强度控制, 共振模的品质因子可以通过调节外部障碍光子晶体的周期数控制. 并且, 共振模受入射角和光偏振模式的影响都比较小, 适合全方向滤波. 当考虑两种单负材料不同损耗的影响时, 研究结果表明, 电损耗对低频处的共振模影响大, 而磁损耗对高频和低频处的共振模影响都比较大.     

Resonant modes in photonic multiple quantum well structures with single-negative materials

A type of photonic multiple quantum well (PMQWs) structure made of two different photonic crystals (PCs) with two kinds of single-negative materials is investigated. It is demonstrated by transfer matrix method that omnidirectional resonance modes are generated. The number of the resonance modes can be controlled by adjusting the periodic structure of the constituents. The resonance tunneling modes are weak dependence on incident angle and the scaling of the barrier photonic crystals. When the losses are taken into account, the effects of the losses coming from ENG media and MNG media on the resonance modes are striking difference.     

双重势垒一维光子晶体量子阱的光传输特性研究

利用传输矩阵法,研究单势垒和双重势垒一维光子晶体量子阱结构的光传输特性.结果表明:垒层折射率总和大的单势垒光量子阱的透射峰更加精细,内部局域电场更加强;双重势垒光量子阱的透射峰比单势垒光量子阱的透射峰精细,内部局域电场也比单势垒光量子阱的强;随着垒层光子晶体周期数增大,双重势垒光量子阱内部局域电场增强,而且垒、阱层折射率总和之比越大,双重势垒光量子阱的内部局域电场增强速度越快,当双重垒层光子晶体周期数同时增大时,双重势垒量子阱内部局域电场增强速度最快,透射峰越加精细.随着阱层光子晶体周期数的增大,单势垒或双重势垒光量子阱的内部局域电场强度均下降,但透射峰的透射率不随之改变.该特性为设计新型可调高品质的量子光学器件提供指导.     

Various photonic crystal structures fabricated by using a top-cut hexagonal prism

We demonstrate a holographic approach for the fabrication of large-area photonic crystal (PhC) microstructures by applying a single top-cut hexagonal prism (TCHP). The interference patterns of the beams from the TCHP are calculated. Various two-dimensional PhC structures are fabricated in photo-resist films. They include symmetrical hexagonal structures, the honey-comb structure and the hexagonal structure with skewed elliptical rods. The first structures come from six-beam and symmetrical three-beam interfering. The second structure appears when the beam is incident on the TCHP obliquely. The third structure is obtained when adjacent three beams or four beams are interfered. The period can be decreased to 285 nm. SPM observations of the PhCs provide the basis for measurement of their structural parameters. A good agreement is obtained for the measured structural parameters and calculated results for the PhCs. The photonic band gaps of the hexagonal symmetrical and honeycomb structures are derived by using the plane wave method. These results reveal that, by varying the number of split beams and the incident angle, using the single TCHP PhCs, different band gaps can be achieved.     

Manipulating transmission and reflection properties of a photonic crystal doped with quantum dot nanostructures

We consider excitations that exist, in addition to phonons, in the ideal Bose gas at zero temperature. These excitations are vortex rings whose energy spectrum is similar to the roton one in liquid helium.     

Resonant modes and inter-well coupling in photonic double quantum well structures with single-negative materials

We investigate the resonance tunneling modes of photonic double quantum well made of two photonic crystals with two different single-negative materials. It is found that these resonance modes split pairs, due to a coupling between two photonic wells. It is observed that when two photonic quantum wells are far away from each other, resonance modes appear as a single peak. And the quality factors of the transmittance resonance peaks can be greatly improved by increasing the period number of the outer barrier. The effects of the losses coming from ENG and MNG materials on the resonance modes are also specifically explored.     

双色量子阱红外探测器顶部光子晶体耦合层的设计优化

采用三维时域有限差分算法(3D-FDTD)对GaAs/AlGaAs量子阱红外探测器(QWIP)的顶部光子晶体光输入耦合层结构的电磁场分布进行了仿真分析,得到了多种不同周期、占空比、深度的二维光子晶体结构耦合效率及电磁场分布.探索了一种双色探测器的光子晶体光输入耦合层结构的设计思路,使之可对中波/长波或长波双色8/12 μm同时提供较高的耦合效率. 关键词： 红外探测器 量子阱 光子晶体     

Stable high optical power in quantum well lasers with profiled reflection and tapered structures

A comprehensive model is presented to study quantum well tapered lasers and quantum well stripe lasers with profiled reflectivity output facets and to obtain lateral stability in high power semiconductor laser. Simulation of semiconductor lasers is performed by numerically solving space-dependent coupled partial differential equations for the complex optical forward and backward waves, carrier density distribution and temperature distribution. The coupled equations are solved by finite difference beam propagation method. The effect of nonlinear parameters like Kerr and linewidth enhancement factors, and precise dependence of linewidth enhancement factor and gain factor on the carrier density and temperature are considered in this paper. We use modal reflector in stripe lasers to confine the lateral mode to the stripe centre and provide the stable operation. We also use unpumped window to reduce the facet temperature and improve the catastrophic optical mirror damage level of tapered lasers.     

High efficiency filtering using two-dimensional photonic crystal coupled cavity structures

Transmission spectra of coupled cavity structures (CCSs) in two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystals (PCs) are investigated using a coupled mode theory, and an optical filter based on CCS is proposed. The performance of the filter is investigated using finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, and the results show that within a very short coupling distance of about 3λ, where λ is the wavelength of signal in vacuum, the incident signals with different frequencies are separated into different channels with a contrast ratio of 20 dB. The advantages of this kind of filter are small size and easily tunable operation frequencies.     

Continuous wave photonic crystal laser in ultraviolet range

It is shown that photonic band-gap (PBG) structures have great potential for the development of widely tunable continues wave and/or mode-locked ultrashort-pulse all-solid-stale lasers in UV and optical ranges. The basic idea is to decrease the laser threshold via inhibition of radiative decay of an upper laser level by embedding an active medium into spatial structure having PBG at the frequency of laser transition. This technique provides favorable conditions for coherent suppression of the excited state absorption crucial for short-wavelength solid-state lasing. It also resolves the laser gain dilemma, providing combination of high emission cross-section and large population inversion. Different designs of 2D and 3D photonic crystal laser are proposed.     

Purcell effect of GaAs quantum dots by photonic crystal microcavities

We fabricate photonic crystal slab microcavities embedded with GaAs quantum dots by electron beam lithography and droplet epitaxy. The Purcell effect of exciton emission of the quantum dots is confirmed by the micro photoluminescence measurement. The resonance wavelengths, widths, and polarization are consistent with numerical simulation results.     

Bound polaron in quantum dot quantum well structures

The problem of bound polarons in quantum dot quantum well (QDQW) structures is studied theoretically. The eigenfrequencies of bulk longitudinal optical (LO) and surface optical (SO) modes are derived in the framework of the dielectric continuum approximation. The electron--phonon interaction Hamiltonian for QDQW structures is obtained and the exchange interaction between impurity and LO-phonons is discussed. The binding energy and the trapping energy of the bound polaron in CdS/HgS QDQW structures are calculated. The numerical results reveal that there exist three branches of eigenfrequencies of surface optical vibration in the CdS/HgS QDQW structure. It is also shown that the binding energy and the trapping energy increase as the inner radius of the QDQW structure decreases, with the outer radius fixed, and the trapping energy takes a major part of the binding energy when the inner radius is very small.     

Interference grating structures in photonic crystal circuits

Photonic Crystal Circuits have been widely investigated for various optoelectronics device applications. And the gratings in photonics devices are indispensable tool, which is very common for light manipulation. In this study, an interference grating structure formed by Gaussian beam interferences in photonic crystal waveguide such that having Kerr type nonlinearity is proposed and its transmission characteristics are investigated. Finite-Difference Time-Domain method is used to analyze the device characteristics. According to simulation results, the interference grating has shown special transmission characteristics that can bring tunability for photonic crystal devices. This can be an effective method for controlling optical signals in the photonic crystal for all optical switching/routing applications as a part of add/drop multiplexing.     

Band structures in nonlinear photonic crystal slabs

The finite-difference time-domain method was used to analyze band structures in two-dimensional Kerr-nonlinear photonic crystal slabs. A triangular lattice of circular air rods was considered. Results show red-shifting of the band structure due to the nonlinearity and the incident intensity. The red-shift of the band gap between the first and the second bands is maximal when the air rod radius is in the range 0.2a to 0.25a, where a is the period.     

Bandgap tuning of semiconductor quantum well structures using ion implantation

Ion induced QW intermixing using broad area and focused ion beam (FIB) implantation was investigated at low energy (32 and 100 keV respectively) in three different material systems (GaAs/AlGaAs, InGaAs/GaAs, and lattice matched InGaAs/InP). Repeated sequential ion implants and rapid thermal anneals (RTAs) were successful in delivering several times the maximum QW bandgap shift achievable by a single implant/RTA cycle. The effectiveness of broad area high energy implantation (8 MeV As⁴⁺) on QW intermixing was also established for GRINSCH (graded-index separate confinement heterostructure) QW laser structures grown in InGaAs/GaAs. Lastly, preliminary work illustrating the effects of implant temperature and ion current density was carried out for InGaAs/GaAsQWs.