Tuning of photonic crystal cavities by controlled removal of locally infiltrated water

Year: 2009

Authors: Intonti F., Vignolini S., Riboli F., Zani M., Wiersma D.S., Balet L., Li LH., Francardi M., Gerardino A., Fiore A., Gurioli M.

Autors Affiliation: CNISM, Unita Ric Firenze, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy;
Univ Florence, Dept Phys, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy;
Univ Florence, European Lab Nonlinear Spect, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy;
INFM, BEC,I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy;
Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, Inst Photon & Quantum Elect, Stn 3, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland;
CNR, Inst Photon & Nanotechnol, I-00156 Rome, Italy;
Eindhoven Univ Technol, COBRA Res Inst, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven, Netherlands

Abstract: We present a spectral tuning mechanism of photonic crystal microcavities based on microfluidics. The microinfiltration with water of one or few cavity holes and its subsequent controlled evaporation allow us to tune the cavity resonances in a spectral range larger than 20 nm, with subnanometer accuracy, and we also observe that the addition of water in the microcavity region improves its quality factor Q. (C) 2009 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3247894]

Journal/Review: APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Volume: 95 (17)      Pages from: 173112  to: 173112

More Information: The author thanks Lucio Claudio Andreani for important contributions during the initial stage of this work. L.B and A.F. acknowledge financial support from the Swiss National Science Foundation n. PP0022-112405.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3247894

Citations: 35
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