Design and fabrication of ridge waveguide-based nanobeam cavities for on-chip single-photon sources
Abstract
We report on the design of nanohole/nanobeam cavities in ridge waveguides for on-chip, quantum-dot-based single-photon generation. Our design overcomes limitations of a low-refractive-index-contrast material platform in terms of emitter-mode coupling efficiency and yields an outcoupling efficiency of 0.73 to the output ridge waveguide. Importantly, this high coupling efficiency is combined with broadband operation of 9 nm full-width half-maximum. We provide an explicit design procedure for identifying the optimum geometrical parameters according to the developed design. Besides, we fabricate and optically characterize a proof-of-concept waveguide structure. The results of the microphotoluminescence measurements provide evidence for cavity-enhanced spontaneous emission from the quantum dot, thus supporting the potential of our design for on-chip single-photon sources applications.
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@article{arxiv.2203.10921,
title = {Design and fabrication of ridge waveguide-based nanobeam cavities for on-chip single-photon sources},
author = {Uğur Meriç Gür and Yuhui Yang and Johannes Schall and Ronny Schmidt and Arsenty Kaganskiy and Yujing Wang and Luca Vannucci and Michael Mattes and Samel Arslanagić and Stephan Reitzenstein and Niels Gregersen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.10921},
year = {2022}
}