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Deliberate versus intrinsic disorder in photonic crystal nanocavities investigated by resonant light scattering

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Date
12/07/2011
Author
Portalupi, S. L.
Galli, M.
Belotti, M.
Andreani, L. C.
Krauss, Thomas Fraser
O'Faolain, Liam
Funder
EPSRC
EPSRC
Grant ID
EP/H00680X/1
EP/H00680X/1
Keywords
PROPAGATION
SLABS
WAVE-GUIDES
QC Physics
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Abstract
We report a study of photonic crystal nanocavities as a function of lattice disorder, which is implemented by deliberate radius variations of the holes forming the photonic crystal. Using cross-polarized laser light scattering, we demonstrate that lattice disorder affects the cavity mode symmetry, as is crucially evidenced by measuring scattering resonances for different sample orientations and explained by group-theoretical analysis together with calculations of the mode profile. We also quantify how the increase of lattice disorder leads to a reduction of the cavity Q factors and to a spread of both Q factors and resonance wavelengths. The trends as a function of disorder and for different radii distributions are well reproduced by theoretical calculations when both intentional (deliberate) and intrinsic (residual) disorder are taken into account. The results shed light on the effects of disorder on cavity resonances and on the interplay between intentional and intrinsic disorder, yielding reliable estimations of residual disorder (which ultimately affects technology limits) from optical measurements. Interestingly, the disorder values derived from the variation of the Q factor are lower than those derived from the wavelength spread: this suggests the occurrence of subtle interhole correlation effects that turn out to be beneficial for cavity Q factors.
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Portalupi , S L , Galli , M , Belotti , M , Andreani , L C , Krauss , T F & O'Faolain , L 2011 , ' Deliberate versus intrinsic disorder in photonic crystal nanocavities investigated by resonant light scattering ' , Physical Review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics , vol. 84 , no. 4 , 045423 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.045423
Publication
Physical Review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.045423
ISSN
1098-0121
Type
Journal article
Rights
©2011 American Physical Society
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URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2874

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