Photon recycling in Fabry-Perot micro-cavities based on Si$_3$N$_4$ waveguides
Abstract
We present a numerical analysis and preliminary experimental results on one-dimensional Fabry-Perot micro-cavities in SiN waveguides. The Fabry-Perot micro-cavities are formed by two distributed Bragg reflectors separated by a straight portion of waveguide. The Bragg reflectors are composed by a few air slits produced within the SiN waveguides. In order to increase the quality factor of the micro-cavities, we have minimized, with a multiparametric optimization tool, the insertion loss of the reflectors by varying the length of their first periods (those facing the cavity). To explain the simulation results the coupling of the fundamental waveguide mode with radiative modes in the Fabry-Perot micro-cavities is needed. This effect is described as a recycling of radiative modes in the waveguide. To support the modelling, preliminary experimental results of micro-cavities in SiN waveguides realized with Focused Ion Beam technique are reported.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0509779,
title = {Photon recycling in Fabry-Perot micro-cavities based on Si$_3$N$_4$ waveguides},
author = {F. Riboli and A. Recati and N. Daldosso and L. Pavesi and G. Pucker and A. Lui and S. Cabrini and E. Di Fabrizio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0509779},
year = {2009}
}
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5 pages, 5 figures