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Local tuning of photonic crystal cavities using chalcogenide glasses

Optics 2009-11-13 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We demonstrate a method to locally change the refractive index in planar optical devices by photodarkening of a thin chalcogenide glass layer deposited on top of the device. The method is used to tune the resonance of GaAs-based photonic crystal cavities by up to 3 nm at 940 nm, with only 5% deterioration in cavity quality factor. The method has broad applications for postproduction tuning of photonic devices.

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@article{arxiv.0711.0772,
  title  = {Local tuning of photonic crystal cavities using chalcogenide glasses},
  author = {Andrei Faraon and Dirk Englund and Douglas Bulla and Barry Luther-Davies and Benjamin J. Eggleton and Nick Stoltz and Pierre Petroff and Jelena Vuckovic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.0772},
  year   = {2009}
}

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3 pages, 2 figures