Efficient light coupling into a photonic crystal waveguide with flatband slow mode

Details Efficient light coupling into a photonic crystal waveguide with flatband slow mode Efficient light coupling into a photonic crystal waveguide with flatband slow mode

2008-01-21

arxiv.org/abs/0801.3259v1

Physics

Optics

11 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.photonics.2008.03.001

We design an efficient coupler to transmit light from a strip waveguide into the flatband slow mode of a photonic crystal waveguide with ring-shaped holes. The coupler is a section of a photonic crystal waveguide with a higher group velocity, obtained by different ring dimensions. We demonstrate coupling efficiency in excess of 95% over the 8 nm wavelength range where the photonic crystal waveguide exhibits a quasi constant group velocity vg = c/37. An analysis based on the small Fabry-P\'erot resonances in the simulated transmission spectra is introduced and used for studying the effect of the coupler length and for evaluating the coupling efficiency in different parts of the coupler. The mode conversion efficiency within the coupler is more than 99.7% over the wavelength range of interest. The parasitic reflectance in the coupler, which depends on the propagation constant mismatch between the slow mode and the coupler mode, is lower than 0.6% within this wavelength range.

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