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Enhancement and reproducibility of high quality factor, one-dimensional photonic crystal/photonic wire (1D PhC/PhW) microcavities

Abstract

Background

The production of compact and multi-functional photonic devices has become a topic of major research activity in recent years. Devices have emerged that can be used for functional requirements in high speed optical data processing, filtering, nonlinear optical functions such as all-optical switching - and many other applications. The combination of photonic crystal (PhC) structures consisting of a single row of holes embedded in a narrow photonic wire (PhW) waveguide realised in high index-contrast materials is a possible contender for provision of a range of compact devices on a single chip. This trend has been motivated by the availability of a silicon technology that can support monolithic integration to form fully functional devices on CMOS chips.

Results

We have successfully demonstrated experimentally an enhancement of the quality factor of a one-dimensional (1D) photonic crystal/photonic wire (PhC/PhW) microcavity that can exhibit resonance quality factor (Q-factor) values as high as 800,000 - together with a low modal volume of approximately 0.5 (λ/n)3. These results are based on the use of a mode matching approach previously used for device design - through the engineering of tapered hole sections within and outside the cavity - and were achieved without removing the silica cladding layer below the silicon waveguide core. The simulation results obtained in this case also agree with the experimental results obtained.

Conclusions

In this work we have demonstrated that the mode matching, as light enters the photonic crystal structure, can be further enhanced through the use of careful fine tuning of the third hole, t3 of the tapered hole region outside the cavity. The Q-factor value obtained was approximately four times greater than that achieved in our previous work on a similar structure.

Background

The high index contrast between the silicon and its surrounding cladding makes it possible to design more complex structures - such as sharp bends, abrupt Y-junctions, Mach-Zehnder structures [1,2,3] - and sensors [4,5,6]. On the other hand, the large thermo-optic coefficient of silicon also makes it possible to manipulate the refractive index by means of both thermo-optical and electro-optical effects – in order to create compact modulators that have been demonstrated in both PhC and PhW formats [7, 8]. The race towards producing microcavity device structures that exhibit high Q-factors and large Purcell-factors has accelerated in recent years. A key aspect is the capabilities of the PhC/PhW device structure - which can exhibit a high resonance quality factor (Q-factor) value and strong optical confinement in a small volume, V, for optical signal processing and filtering purposes - implying a large Purcell factor [9,10,11]. The Q-factor of a resonator is defined as the ratio of the total energy stored in the cavity to the energy loss per cycle [12], where Q = ω0/Δω [ratio of energy stored to energy loss per cycle]. It can be re-expressed as: Q = λ0/Δλ, where λ0 is the central wavelength of the resonance and Δλ is the full-width half-maximum (FWHM) value of the resonance, as reported in detail in references [13] and [14, 15, 16] - where Q = λ0/Δλ implies that the energy stored in the cavity decays exponentially in time, with a decay-time, t = Q/ω0. In other words, the quality factor, Q, gives a direct measure of the cavity resonance lifetime. Moreover, the Q-factor values obtained are in accord with the mirror reflectivity, as indicated in [17]. The light confinement can also be characterised using a classical Fabry-Perot model, in which a guided Bloch mode in a PhC waveguide bounces between the two associated mirrors that form the micro cavity [18, 19] - where the reflectivity for the Bloch mode is very close to unity, with estimated reflectivity, R, ~ 0.999.

In photonic crystal (PhC) microcavity structures, the optical properties may usefully be characterized by the Q/V ratio (often called the Purcell factor [20, 21]), where Q is the resonance quality factor and V is the modal volume corresponding to the particular microcavity and its characteristic resonant electromagnetic modes. Designing high Q-factor optical microcavities where the light is confined in a small volume, V, is potentially useful for high speed optical processing - with light being confined within a small volume, on the order of (λ/2n)3 - where λ is the emission wavelength and n is the refractive index of the given material. In the present work, the microcavity structures were realized in silicon-on-insulator (SOI). Such silicon based structures are potentially useful in nonlinear processing where the wavelength of the light used is sufficiently long for transparency. By embedding suitable emission capabilities into the high-index medium, the large Purcell factor values that can be achieved, in combination with embedded emission capabilities, e.g. emission obtained by using photo-pumped quantum dots, will enable very efficient and spectrally narrow photon generation.

A variety of different design configurations for achieving high quality factor values have been described in the literature - such as micro-pillars [22,23,24], silica toroids [25], PhC cavities [26,27,28,29,30,31] in photonic wire waveguides - and cavities based on 2D PhC membrane structures [32, 33]. Q-factor values as large as 108 have been obtained in silica toroids [34], but their structure has a relatively large modal volume. The interest in manufacturing ultra small microcavity device structures has been boosted by the possibility of achieving modal volumes that are comparable with the notional limiting value of V = (λ/2n)3 [35]. Based on this motivation, high Q-factor values, greater than 106, have been achieved [36, 37, 38] - as well as in other configurations such as 1D PhC micro-cavities [28,29,30,31, 39], L3 cavities within 2D PhC environments - where three holes in a line are removed to provide a micro cavity [40] - and also heterostructure microcavities [41, 42]. Our design has demonstrated the large enhancement in the Q-factor that is achievable for light confined within a small volume - through the use of the mode matching mechanism where the light with mode profile matching propagates smoothly from the unpatterned waveguide into the periodic section, as discussed in detail in [18, 19]. But, in most cases, the footprint that the design covers is much larger, especially for 2D PhC based cavities. Therefore, in order to design compact devices that require small footprints while satisfying the requirement for integration with other optical devices, the 1D PhC/PhW device was proposed by Foresi et al. in [30]. The footprint of this particular device covered an area of approximately 1 μm × 3 μm. Another important factor that needs to be considered in such devices is the reproducibility of the fabrication process that is required for production of device structures with a consistent combination of Q-factor value and cavity resonance frequency [43,44,45]. In this paper we report on ultra high quality factor 1D photonic crystal/photonic wire PhC/PhW device structures that exhibit the high mirror reflectance value of approximately 0.999, as calculated in [19]. These results were achieved experimentally over different fabrication cycles and samples, through a range of time scales. In this case, we have successfully demonstrated that our Q-factor values remain consistent with variation of less than 1% through different fabrication cycles that were conducted over a 6 months period.

Methods

Design and FDTD simulations approach

Planar 1D PhC microcavity structures consisting of two mirrors formed by several holes separated by a spacer have been realized in 500 nm wide PhW silicon waveguides. These combined PhC/PhW structures were based on SOI material having a silicon thickness of 260 nm and a 1 μm thick SiO2 cladding underneath it, in order to provide sufficient optical isolation [27, 30]. Potentially, complete removal of the silica cladding can enhance the Q-factor value of the microcavity resonance - and so a 1 μm silica lower cladding layer can be regarded as being sufficiently thick. An early version of the 1D PhC/PhW microcavity was described by Foresi et al. in 1997 [27], where the design consisted of a photonic crystal (PhC) structure formed by a single row of holes. This PhC structure was conceptually separated by inserting a gap, thereby creating a microcavity - but the Q-factor value for this device was only 500. Improvements have been made, more recently, that enhance the microcavity Q-factor value by using tapered hole structures of different sizes and spacing. The design considered in the present paper is shown in Fig. 1 - and consists of five periodically spaced holes that form Bragg mirrors on each side of the microcavity. These holes have a diameter of 350 nm and a periodic spacing of 370 nm. The mirrors were separated by a short cavity length, LC of 400 nm. In order to reduce the modal mismatch between the unpatterned PhW waveguide and the cavity section - and, within the cavity, the mismatch between the Bragg mirrors and the cavity spacer section, optimized hole tapers based on previous work [30, 31] were used. The structures consist of four aperiodically spaced and tapered hole sections at either end of the cavity, NTO - and four aperiodically spaced hole taper sections within the cavity, NTI. The dimensions of the aperiodic holes are given in Fig. 1. Four aperiodically located and tapered holes form the transition sections within the cavity - and have diameters of 170, 180, 166, and 131 nm respectively - with center-to-center hole distances of 342, 304, 310, and 290 nm respectively - whereas the four-hole aperiodic tapered sections outside the cavity have hole diameters of 131, 166, 185 and 170 nm respectively - with center-to-center distances of 275, 305, 314 and 342 nm respectively. With proper design, the tapered hole sections at either end of the cavity reduce the overall transmission loss of the microcavity. The patterns were transferred into the silicon substrate using electron-beam lithography (EBL) tool with negative tone hydrogen silsesquioxane (HSQ) resist as a mask. The PhW waveguides were finally etched using Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) dry etching to remove unwanted silicon areas – using a combination of SF6 and C2F4 gas mixture.

Fig. 1
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Scanning electron micrograph (SEM) images of the Silicon on Insulator (SOI) based PhW waveguide with tapered PhC hole structure for a simple microcavity embedded in it with N = 5, cavity length, Lc = 400 nm, Number of tapered holes within the cavity, NTI = 4 and number of tapered hole outsides cavity, NTO = 4

Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations using commercial software have been carried out, as also reported in [30, 31]. The reflectivity of the mirrors in this particular device increased significantly as the number of periodically spaced holes in the mirrors increased. Figure 2a and b show the variation of Q-factor values and optical transmission through the cavity, ranging over the number of periodic mirrors used - together with aperiodic taper sections outside the cavity, NTO. For simplicity in our argument, in this particular condition, we have kept the tapering inside the cavity, NTI = 4 and cavity length, LC = 400 nm, for both cases. We have only varied the number of holes in the periodic mirror section, as shown in Fig. 2a and tapering outside cavity, NTO as shown in Fig. 2b. For both cases, the Q-factor values show consistent increases as the number of periodically located mirror holes, N, and the number of aperiodically located mirror holes, NTO, increases. This increase in the Q-factor for an increase in the number of holes in the aperiodic taper sections within the cavity, at a fixed number of periodically located holes, may be attributed to the reduction of the modal mismatch between the unstructured photonic-wire waveguides and the mirror regions. The aperiodic taper sections on each side of the Bragg mirrors outside the cavity on the other hand would be expected to reduce the transmission loss through the whole cavity. In all cases, the optical transmission reported in this paper is normalized to the input power of the simulated structures.

Fig. 2
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3D FDTD calculation results for NTI = 4 and Lc = 400 nm - showing the variation of the optical transmission and Q-factor values for: (a) different numbers of periodic mirror holes, without any tapering outside the cavity - and (b) for N = 4, with different numbers of aperiodic holes in the taper section used outside the cavity, NTO in conjunction with the taper design shown in Fig. 1

Results and Discussions

Optimizing the Q-factor of microcavities using hole size and position variation

Further optimization of the structures was carried out on the basis of the design shown in Fig. 1. We have simulated the device structures and compared them on the basis of the number of periodic holes in the middle section, N, together with the number of tapered holes in the section outside the cavity, NTO – in order to enhance the optical transmission - as mentioned in our previous work [30]. For simplicity, we have kept constant the parameters used in specifying the tapering within the cavity, NTI. Based on Fig. 3a, we have demonstrated that in the cases where the number of tapered section holes outside the cavity, NTO, is 3 and 4 respectively, that - as the number of periodic holes, N, increases - the optical transmission is reduced significantly, probably because of the greater sidewall roughness and discontinuity scattering losses associated with the larger number of holes introduced into the mirror structure. In each case, by varying the radius of the third hole, t3, counting from where the light enters into the tapered and aperiodic sections of the PhC microcavity - in the tapered hole section outside the cavity, i.e. the NTO section - we have obtained close control of the optical transmission and Q-factor values of the device structure. As shown in the simulation results for the case of N = 7, together with NTO = 4, we have enhanced the optical transmission by as much as a factor of two, as shown in Fig. 3b - which indicates that the scattering losses are reduced significantly because the light is transmitted smoothly from the un-patterned waveguide into the periodic section. On the other hand, the Q-factor appears to be substantially reduced – which is partly due to the reduction in the optical confinement at the resonance wavelength as light travels through an increased total number of holes within the PhC structures. It is also found that tapering outside the cavity enhances the quality factor via variation of the third hole radius - t3 - as shown in Fig. 3b. As the radius of the hole t3 was increased from 60 nm to 105 nm, the optical transmission also increased by 40%. But the Q-factor value was reduced from 540,000 to approximately 320,000 for the case of t3 values of 60 nm and 105 nm respectively. It can be deduced that the third hole, t3, has a small but significant impact via reduction of the propagation losses that occur as the light enters into the periodic mirror regions, thereby enhancing the optical transmission as well as Q-factor values. Based on the results of the FDTD simulations shown in Fig. 3b, the increase in the radius of t3 from 60 nm to 105 nm has improved the optical transmission by 50%, but there is an accompanying reduction in the Q-factor by 220,000 - from 540,000 to 320,000.

Fig. 3
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The simulation results for optical transmission and Q-factor values, obtained using a 3D FDTD approach, for: (a) different numbers of periodic mirror holes, N - and (b) different radii of the third hole, t3, in the tapered hole section outside the cavity, NTO

This behaviour is also shown in the mode profile distribution at the resonance wavelength, for the case of NTO = 4, in Fig. 4a where N = 4 and Fig. 4b for N = 7 - where the intensity of the optical transmission decreases as the number of periodic holes in the PhC mirror structures increases from N = 4 to N = 7. The intensity of the mode distribution within the cavity at resonance is shown by the scales on the right and is indicated by different colours, together with absolute values. These results lead to the deduction that the optical transmission is substantially higher for the case of N = 4 than for the case of N = 7 - which is partly due to the light undergoing greater scattering losses as it travels through an increased number of periodic holes - as shown in Fig. 4c. In contrast, for the case of a radius of t3 = 95 nm, the Q-factor increases from 150,000 to approximately 740,000, as the number of periodic holes increases from N = 4 to N = 6. But the Q-factor was reduced to approximately 300,000 when the number of periodic mirror holes was increased to N = 7. We have also shown in the previous section in Fig. 3b that, for the case of N = 7, the Q-factor value increased from approximately 300,000 to 540,000 when the radius of t3 was reduced to 65 nm.

Fig. 4
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The mode profile at the resonance wavelength for the case of: a t3 diameter of 185 nm for (a) NTO = 4, N = 4, (b) NTO = 4, N = 7 and mode intensity for N number of holes with (c) different number of tapered outside cavity, NTO = 3 and NTO = 4

This trend is partly due to the increase in the optical confinement within the cavity as the number of holes in each Bragg mirror section increases - meaning that the optical energy at the resonance wavelength is trapped longer within the cavity. In addition, It is also found that the optical transmission is always low for the case of NTO = 4, as compared with the case of NTO = 3 – the scattering losses at the interface between the third and fourth holes within the tapered hole section outside the cavity, NTO, increase as light travels from one hole to another, before entering the periodic mirror section, with N being the number of holes in the periodic mirror section.

Increasing the number of tapered holes outside the cavity, NTO, leads to more pronounced secondary resonances appearing at a wavelength of around approximately 1340 nm - as shown in the inset in Fig. 5. We can deduce from this result that the central resonance with a very high Q-factor value was obtained as the band-gap decreased and clear secondary resonances were observed - essentially forming the band-edge in the shorter wavelength region. In addition, after optimizing the device structures, we have obtained high Q-factor values, but with reduced optical transmission - in agreesment with our previous analysis, where we obtained a reasonably high optical transmission level, together with high Q-factor values. These Q-factor values were obtained with N = 6 and with NTO and NTI having 4-hole sections, as used previously, together with small variations in the value of t3, as shown in Fig. 5. The Q-factor obtained using the 3D FDTD approach has been calculated as approximately 740,000 (740 K), together with a normalized simulated transmission of around 30%. Increasing NTO has influenced the Q-factor because the light propagated more smoothly into the periodic Bragg-mirror sections - although the scattering losses have reduced the total optical transmission of the microcavity.

Fig. 5
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Simulation results obtained using a 3D FDTD approach for analysis corresponding to the measured results obtained in Fig. 7- where high Q-factor values were obtained for N = 6, with NTI = 4 and (a) NTO = 0, FWHM ~ 6 pm, (b) NTO = 3, FWHM ~ 4 pm (c) NTO = 4, FWHM ~ 2 pm, at a resonance wavelength of approximately 1498.338 nm. Inset is the second resonance excited at the wavelength of approximately 1340 nm

Based on our simulation results, shown in Fig. 5 for the case of N = 6 and NTO = NTI = 4, where we have varied the specified diameter of the third hole, t3, (as illustrated in Fig. 1) - we have enhanced the Q-factor to a value of approximately 800,000 at a resonance frequency of 1498.465 nm, with a FWHM of approximately 1.8 pm, as shown in Fig. 6c. Figure 6 also shows the variation of the Q-factor value for three different arrangements of the tapered holes outside the cavity, NTO, while keeping the diameter of t3 at 185 nm. Figure 6a and b show Q-factor values of approximately 115,000 and 150,000 obtained for the case of NTO = 0 and NTO = 3, respectively. Furthermore, the reductions in the Q-factor value in Fig. 6 are partly due to the modal mismatch between the unpatterned wire and the PhC region. The measured results were obtained using a tunable laser covering the range from 1480 nm to 1600 nm - and the optical transmission values obtained were normalised against the transmission of and unpatterned wire without any mirrors embedded in it.

Fig. 6
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Measured results for High Q value obtained for N = 6, with NTI = 4 and (a) NTO = 0, FWHM ~ 13 pm, (b) NTO = 3, FWHM ~ 10 pm and (c) NTO = 4, FWHM ~ 1.8 pm

Figure 7 shows a more detailed comparison between the simulated and measured results discussed previously. The High Q-factor value of approximately 800,000 was measured, as indicated in Fig. 7b, for the case of N = 6, NTO = 4, with hole t3 having an optimized diameter of 185 nm, i.e. a radius of 92.5 nm. The optical transmission is normalised against the unpatterned wire waveguide without any hole embedded in it. In addition, the Q-factor was calculated using the FDTD approach - with the value of approximately 740,000, as shown in Fig. 7a. The resonance was shifted by approximately 25 nm for the measured device, as compared with the simulation result - which is partly due to variations in the actual dimensions obtained after carrying out the fabrication processes. Apart from that, during the simulation, only the horizontal hole tapering is considered – whereas, in the fabrication process, tapering may also occur vertically - since the etching rate in each hole of the taper is different because the etching process is slower in small holes, as compared with bigger holes, and possibly results in tapering in the vertical direction, inside the hole.

Fig. 7
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A detailed comparison between the highest Q obtained using (a) FDTD simulations approach, and (b) Measured results- normalized against the un patterned wire waveguide without any holes embedded in it-, for the case of N = 6, NTO = 4 and the optimized t3 with diameters of approximately 185 nm

A proper assessment of the performance of micro-cavities depends on two crucial parameters - which are the resonance quality factor, Q, and the modal volume, V [13] - where the Q-factor value directly determines the photon lifetime within the cavity and the modal volume, V, is the key factor for assessing the impact of the electromagnetic confinement of the mode within the cavity. The Q-factor value obtained in a small volume, V, also implies a large value for the Purcell factor, F p , which is given by the dimensionless general expression based on [20, 21];

$$ Fp=\frac{3}{4{\pi}^2}{\left(\frac{\lambda }{n}\right)}^3\left(\frac{Q}{V}\right) $$
(1)

where (λ/n)3 is the reference volume defined by the scaled wavelength in the material with refractive index n - and Q and V are the quality factor of the resonance and the resonant modal volume of the microcavity, respectively. In addition, the Purcell factor for an emitter in the resonant cavity can be expressed on the basis of Fermi’s golden rule, as discussed in [46, 47] - thereby giving the Purcell factor as the enhancement of the spontaneous emission rate for the microcavity with respect to the spontaneous emission rate into free space as;

$$ Fp=\frac{\Gamma}{\Gamma_0}=\frac{6Q{\left(\lambda /2n\right)}^3}{\pi^2{V}_{eff}}=\frac{6Q}{\pi^2\overset{\sim }{V} eff} $$
(2)

Where n is the refractive index at the resonance frequency, V eff is the effective volume of the electromagnetic mode within the cavity and \( {\overset{\sim }{V}}_{eff} \) is the normalized dimension-less effective index volume [48]. This is true for V eff when the condition is such that the linewidth of the cavity resonance is greater than the emission linewidth – where, in this case, the F p value is strongly affected by the value of the Q-factor. But in the case where the resonance linewidth is smaller than the emission linewidth, the Q-factor value will be highly influenced by the reduction in the normalized effective volume, \( {\overset{\sim }{V}}_{eff} \). The normalized mode volume \( {\overset{\sim }{V}}_{eff} \) can therefore be defined as:

$$ {\tilde{V}}_{eff}={V}_{eff}{\left(\frac{2n}{\lambda}\right)}^3 $$
(3)

Therefore, on the basis of Eq. 3, the Purcell factor of the microcavity can be estimated. In this work, we have embedded the custom PhC holes within the waveguide cross-sectional area of 500 nm × 260 nm2 - with a refractive index value of 3.48 and a lower cladding refractive index of approximately 1.46 [27]. The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) approach was used to calculate the Q-factor of the resonant mode, agreeing with the measured value of Q, and is approximately 800,000. Based on Eq. 3, the value of the normalized modal volume estimated from simulation for this particular device was approximately 0.5 (λ/n)3. We estimate that the value of the Q/V ratio in this case is approximately 1.6 × 106 (λ/n)− 3. In comparison, Song et al. [36] have obtained a resonance Q-factor value of approximately 600,000, together with a modal volume of approximately 1.2 (λ/n)3 and a resulting Q/V value of approximately 5 × 105 (λ/n)− 3. Velha et al. have achieved a resonant modal volume of approximately 0.6 (λ/n)3 with 1D PhC structures, together with a Q-factor value of approximately 8900 [28] - and a resulting Q/V value of approximately 1.5 × 104 (λ/n)− 3. We believe that a higher Q-factor value for the case of the 1D PhC microcavity based on Velha et al. could be obtained, together with modal volume values close to the theoretical limit of V = (λ/2n)3, by tuning the tapered hole structures both outside and within the cavity. Reducing the effective modal volume will also increase the spontaneous emission rate [18, 19] of a device that is capable of light emission. Furthermore, we believe that even higher Q/V and normalized Purcell factor values can be realized by using the slot-guide approach that is described in Robinson et al. [48].

Conclusions

Our demonstration of obtaining high resonance Q-factor values in 1D PhC/PhW microcavity device structures has also shown that the fabrication processes for such device structures can be usefully reproducible – as demonstrated for a number of different samples and different process runs over an extended period of time. The effect of the Fabry-Perot (FP) fringes contributed by the cleaved end-facets appears to be suppressed when accompanied by the highest Q-factor values produced by the microcavity itself. This is observed in our experimental results with a high Q-factor value of approximately 800,000 at a resonance wavelength of 1498.46 nm, as shown in Fig. 6c and when compared with our previous reported results - although the overall FP effects due to the end facets can still be clearly seen throughout the whole spectrum. We have successfully shown that, through several different fabrication cycles using different samples, it is possible to produce consistent values of resonance Q-factor and resonance frequency.

Different measurement cycles for each of the samples have also shown that consistent values for the Q-factor and resonance frequency were preserved. At this point, the effect of intra-chip variation on the Q-factor values produced has not yet been fully assessed. Our studies have focused primarily on reproducing the high Q-factor values for different cycles with one specific design - and completely different samples and designs will be required to determine the impact of environmental effects such as air pressure and humidity variations. The highest measured Q-factor value obtained for the 1D PhC/PhW microcavity device was 800,000 – and this was obtained via small variations in the tapered hole structures outside the cavity. We have also demonstrated that the third hole, t3, within the tapered section outside the microcavity exhibits a desirably significant impact on the optical transmission and quality factor values – where a 35 nm difference in that particular hole radius gave an approximately factor of two increase in optical transmission – but also a substantially reduced Q-factor, going from 550,000 down to approximately 340,000.

For instance, the measured results show good agreement with the simulated results obtained by using the FDTD approach. In conclusion, we have successfully designed and fabricated ultra high Q-factor microcavity structures, with a Q-factor value of approximately 800,000, at the very low modal volume of approximately 0.5 (λ/n)3 and an actual volume calculated of approximately 0.015 μm3. These values gave an estimated Q/V ratio of approximately 1.6 × 106 (λ/n)− 3 - which, to our knowledge, is the highest measured Q/V ratio for a structure based on an SOI substrate. It is the combination of a very high Q-factor value and a very small modal volume that is outstanding for this particular microcavity geometry. While higher Q-factor values have been obtained elsewhere, the modal volume in our structure is invariably, to the best of our knowledge, the smallest demonstrated in a PhC based resonator structure.

Abbreviations

PhC:

Photonic crystal

PhW:

Photonic wire

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Nawi, N., Majlis, B.Y., Mahdi, M.A. et al. Enhancement and reproducibility of high quality factor, one-dimensional photonic crystal/photonic wire (1D PhC/PhW) microcavities. J. Eur. Opt. Soc.-Rapid Publ. 14, 6 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41476-018-0072-1

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