We performed an experimental study of coupled optical cavity arrays in a photonic crystal platform. We find that the coupling between the cavities is significantly larger than the fabrication-induced disorder in the cavity frequencies. Satisfying this condition is necessary for using such cavity arrays to generate strongly correlated photons, which has potential application to the quantum simulation of many-body systems.
@article{arxiv.1209.3076,
title = {Design and analysis of photonic crystal coupled cavity arrays for quantum simulation},
author = {Arka Majumdar and Armand Rundquist and Michal Bajcsy and Vaishno D. Dasika and Seth R. Bank and Jelena Vuckovic},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.3076},
year = {2012}
}