Dispersion engineered slow light in photonic crystals: a comparison

Sebastian Andreas Schulz; Liam O'Faolain; Daryl Matthew Beggs; T. P. White; A. Melloni; Thomas Fraser Krauss

doi:10.1088/2040-8978/12/10/104004

Dispersion engineered slow light in photonic crystals: a comparison

Sebastian Andreas Schulz, Liam O'Faolain, Daryl Matthew Beggs, T. P. White, A. Melloni, Thomas Fraser Krauss

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Abstract

We review the different types of dispersion engineered photonic crystal waveguides that have been developed for slow light applications. We introduce the group index bandwidth product (GBP) and the loss per delay in terms of dB ns(-1) as two key figures of merit to describe such structures and compare the different experimental realizations based on these figures. A key outcome of the comparison is that slow light based on photonic crystals performs as well or better than slow light based on coupled ring resonators.

Original language	English
Article number	104004
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Optics
Volume	12
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/2040-8978/12/10/104004
Publication status	Published - Oct 2010

Keywords

dispersion engineering
slow light
photonic crystal waveguide
slow light losses
OPTICAL WAVE-GUIDE
GROUP-VELOCITY
SILICON
OPTIMIZATION
NANOCAVITIES
ULTRACOMPACT
SLABS
MODE
CHIP
SIZE

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Lasing of Erbium in Crystalline silicon: Lasing of Erbium in crystalline silicon Photonic Nanostructures - LECSIN
O'Faolain, L. (PI) & Krauss, T. F. (CoI)
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