Trapping and delaying photons for one nanosecond in an ultrasmall high-Q photonic-crystal nanocavity

By Takasumi Tanabe, Masaya Notomi, Eiichi Kuramochi, Akihiko Shinya, H. Taniyama. 2007

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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Dynamic modulation of photonic crystal nanocavities using gigahertz acoustic phonons (2011, background): “The broadband, RF spectral tuning of our SAWsPCM system will result in deeper insights into cavity quantum electrodynamics due to its fast tuning rates compared to the lifetime of the emitters and photons inside the cavit”
Manipulating light with strongly modulated photonic crystals (2010, background): “4 to demonstrate slow light pulse propagation [72, 73].”
Coherent generation of non-classical light on a chip via photon-induced tunnelling and blockade (2008, background): “The most straightforward configuration would be a photonic crystal cavity butt-coupled in between two photonic crystal waveguide”
Sensitive mid-infrared detection in wide-bandgap semiconductors using extreme non-degenerate two-photon absorption (2011, background): “168" language="eng" relation="no" origsrc="yes"> Semiconductors are excellent materials for photonic switching because of their large third-order nonlinearities, and have been the subject of extensive studies, both experimental and theoretica”
Optical quantum memory (2009, background): “For example, light has been stored for over a nanosecond in wavelength-scale photonic crystal cavities with a tunable Q factor which allows control over the storage time [28].”
Ultra-low Threshold electrically pumped quantum dot photonic crystal nanocavity laser (2011, background): “High quality factors (>1 × 10 6 ) have been demonstrated in cavities with mode volumes comparable to a cubic-optical wavelengt”
High-speed ultracompact buried heterostructure photonic-crystal laser with 13 fJ of energy consumed per bit transmitted (2010, background): “Because of the strong light confinement achieved through the existence of photonic bandgaps, ultrasmall (comparable to the wavelength) and high- Q (>1 × 10 6 ) cavities can be realized in photonic crystal”
Photon confinement in photonic crystal nanocavities (2008, background): “Further engineering of the interface by tapering leads to experimental Q values in the excess of 106 with theoretical predictions greater than 107 [59–61].”
Expanding the Silicon Photonics Portfolio With Silicon Nitride Photonic Integrated Circuits (2017, positive): “Furthermore, the high index contrast allows the implementation of functions such as photonic crystal cavities [19]–[21] and high-efficiency grating couplers [22], [23] that are difficult or simply not possible to implement in a low index contrast material platform.”