We show that by using the photonic crystals, we can confine, guide, and emit light efficiently. By precise control over the geometry and three-dimensional design, it is possible to obtain high quality optical devices with extremely small dimensions. Here we describe examples of high-Q optical nanocavities, photonic crystal waveguides, and surface plasmon enhanced light-emitting diode (LEDs)

Lončar, Marko

Painter, Oskar

Scherer, Axel

Vučković, Jelena

Yoshie, Tomoyuki

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Photonic crystals for confining, guiding, and emitting light

Abstract—We show that by using the photonic crystals, we can confine, guide, and emit light efficiently. By precise control over the geometry and three-dimensional design, it is possible to obtain high quality optical devices with extremely small dimensions. Here we describe examples of high-Q optical nanocavities, photonic crystal waveguides, and surface plasmon enhanced light-emitting diode (LEDs). Index Terms—Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) methods, light-emitting diodes, photonic bandgap (PBG) materials, photonic crystal waveguides, photonic crystals, microcavities, nanooptics, quantum-well laser, semiconductor device fabrication, spontaneous emission, surface plasmons. I. PHOTONIC CRYSTAL NANOCAVITIES THE PAST rapid emergence of optical microcavity devices,such as vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) [1] and [2] can be largely attributed to the high precision over th

Axel Scherer

Oskar Painter

Jelena Vuckovic

Marko Loncar

Tomoyuki Yoshie

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Photonic crystals for confining, guiding and emitting light

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