Optical fiber coupling to planar photonic crystal microcavities

2004/05/13 by Paul E. Barclay, Kartik Srinivasan, Barclay, Paul E. +3
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors #FOS: Physical sciences #Optics (physics.optics) #Photonic Crystals and Applications #Photonic and Optical Devices #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #physics.optics #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0405064

Superceded by physics/0412002 (2004)

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Abstract

A technique is demonstrated which efficiently transfers light between a tapered standard single-mode optical fiber and a resonant mode of a high-Q photonic crystal cavity with mode volume less than a cubic wavelength in size. Cavity mode quality factors of 4.7 x 10⁴ are measured, and a total fiber-to-cavity coupling efficiency of 44% is demonstrated.

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