Experimental verification of numerically optimized photonic crystal injector, Y-splitter, and bend
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2005-07-01
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IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
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Florey Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Ayre, M., Karle, T. J., Wu, L., Davies, T. & Krauss, T. F. (2005). Experimental verification of numerically optimized photonic crystal injector, Y-splitter, and bend. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 23 (7), pp.1390-1394. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2005.851169.
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We present the experimental measurement of a photonic crystal (PhC) device comprising an injector, Y-splitter, and 60/spl deg/ bend. The complete device consists of a 9-/spl mu/m-long injector tapering down from 5 /spl mu/m into a triangular-lattice-of-holes single-line defect waveguide with period a=430 nm and 36.2% air filling factor (corresponding to a radius over period (r/a) ratio of 0.30), an optimized Y-junction, 60/spl deg/ bend and output injectors, with a total device footprint of 30 /spl mu/m. This is etched into a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure using chlorine/argon chemically assisted ion beam etching (CAIBE). An erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA)-based source and Fabry-Perot technique are used to characterize the device. The device displays a bandwidth of approximately 110 nm in the 1.55 /spl mu/m window, and a transmission of 70% relative to the same length of 5-/spl mu/m-wide waveguide. This is compared with three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain (3-D FDTD) results, which have a bandwidth and transmission of 120 nm and 75%, respectively. The highlight of this paper is the close agreement of the numerically optimized complete microcircuit with its experimental equivalent, and the significant improvement in bandwidth over previous work on Y-junctions.
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