Conference Proceedings
High-Q cavities in photonic crystal slab heterostructures formed by variation in the refractive index
S Tomljenovic-Hanic, CM De Sterke, MJ Steel
Proceedings of 2007 9th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2007 | Published : 2007
Abstract
We propose two novel concepts for creating high-Q cavities in photonic crystal slabs (PCS). We show that photonic crystal slab-based double-heterostructure cavities, formed by variations in the refractive index of photosensitive PCS or formed by air-hole infiltration, can have large Q-factors (Q > 1 × 106). ©2007 IEEE.