Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
2010-03-27
Optics Express, Vol. 18, Issue 14, pp. 14926-14943 (2010)
Physics
Optics
18 pages, 10 figures. minor revisions; version accepted for publication
Scientific paper
10.1364/OE.18.014926
In this paper we study and design quasi-2D optomechanical crystals, waveguides, and resonant cavities formed from patterned slabs. Two-dimensional periodicity allows for in-plane pseudo-bandgaps in frequency where resonant optical and mechanical excitations localized to the slab are forbidden. By tailoring the unit cell geometry, we show that it is possible to have a slab crystal with simultaneous optical and mechanical pseudo-bandgaps, and for which optical waveguiding is not compromised. We then use these crystals to design optomechanical cavities in which strongly interacting, co-localized photonic-phononic resonances occur. A resonant cavity structure formed by perturbing a "linear defect" waveguide of optical and acoustic waves in a silicon optomechanical crystal slab is shown to support an optical resonance at wavelength 1.5 micron and a mechanical resonance of frequency 9.5 GHz. These resonances, due to the simultaneous pseudo-bandgap of the waveguide structure, are simulated to have optical and mechanical radiation-limited Q-factors greater than 10^7. The optomechanical coupling of the optical and acoustic resonances in this cavity due to radiation pressure is also studied, with a quantum conversion rate, corresponding to the scattering rate of a single cavity photon via a single cavity phonon, calculated to be 292 kHz.
Painter Oskar
Safavi-Naeini Amir H.
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