Photonic crystal

About: Photonic crystal is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 43424 publications have been published within this topic receiving 887083 citations.

Ultra-low shrinkage hybrid photosensitive material for two-photon polymerization microfabrication.

Abstract: Investigations into the structuring by two-photon polymerization of a nonshrinking, photosensitive, zirconium sol−gel material are presented This hybrid material can be photostructured even when it contains up to 30 mol % of zirconium propoxide (ZPO); by varying the material’s inorganic content, it is possible to modify and tune its refractive index The introduction of ZPO significantly increases the photosensitivity of the resulting photopolymer The fabricated three-dimensional photonic crystal structures demonstrate high resolution and a clear band-stop in the near-IR region In contrast to common practice, no additional effort is required to precompensate for shrinkage or to improve the structural stability of the fabricated photonic crystals; this, combined with the possibility of tuning this material’s optical, mechanical, and chemical properties, makes it suitable for a variety of applications by two-photon polymerization manufacturing

Optical properties of a low-loss polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber

Abstract: A low-loss and highly birefringent polarization maintaining photonic crystal fiber has been fabricated. The fiber loss and modal birefringence at 1550 nm were 1.3 dB/km and 1.4×10-3, respectively.

Stopping Light in a Waveguide with an All-Optical Analog of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

Abstract: We introduce a new all-optical mechanism that can compress the bandwidth of light pulses to absolute zero, and bring them to a complete stop. The mechanism can be realized in a system consisting of a waveguide side coupled to tunable resonators, which generates a photonic band structure that represents a classical analogue of the electromagnetically induced transparency. The same system can also achieve a time-reversal operation. We demonstrate the operation of such a system by finite-difference time-domain simulations of an implementation in photonic crystals.

Gas sensing using air-guiding photonic bandgap fibers

Abstract: We report on experimental studies of gas sensing using air-guiding photonic bandgap fibers. The photonic bandgap fibers have at one end been spliced to standard single mode fibers for ease of use and improved stability

Watt-class high-power, high-beam-quality photonic-crystal lasers

Abstract: The applications of surface-emitting lasers, in particular vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), are currently being extended to various low-power fields including communications and interconnections. However, the fundamental difficulties in increasing their output power by more than several milliwatts while maintaining single-mode operation prevent their application in high-power fields such as material processing, laser medicine and nonlinear optics, despite their advantageous properties of circular beams, the absence of catastrophic optical damage, and their suitability for two-dimensional integration. Here, we demonstrate watt-class high-power, single-mode operation by a two-dimensional photonic-crystal surface-emitting laser under room-temperature, continuous-wave conditions. The two-dimensional band-edge resonant effect of a photonic crystal formed by metal–organic chemical vapour deposition enables a 1,000 times broader coherent-oscillation area, which results in a high beam quality of M2 ≤ 1.1, narrowing the focus spot by two orders of magnitude compared to VCSELs. Our demonstration promises to realize innovative high-power applications for surface-emitting lasers. Researchers demonstrate a watt-class high-power, single-mode photonic-crystal laser operating continuously at room temperature. A beam quality of M2 ≤ 1.1 is achieved.