Disorder-induced losses in planar photonic crystals

Rolando Ferrini (1) , Daniel Leuenberger (1) , Romuald Houdré (1) , Henri Benisty (2) , Martin Kamp (3) , Alfred Forchel (3)

1 Institut de Photonique et d'Electronique Quantiques
2 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Naphel
3 Technische Physik

The phenomenological approach introduced by Benisty et al. [Appl. Phys. Lett. 76, 532 (2000) ] to model out-of-plane radiation losses in planar photonic crystals with a low vertical refractive index contrast is extended to the case of in-plane disorder. The model is experimentally validated by means of optical measurements on GaAs-based structures. For the present fabrication techniques the disorder-induced contribution is found to be negligible compared with the other loss mechanisms.

Domains: Optics [physics.optics]

Rolando Ferrini, Daniel Leuenberger, Romuald Houdré, Henri Benisty, Martin Kamp, et al.. Disorder-induced losses in planar photonic crystals. Optics Letters, 2006, 31 (10), pp.1426-1428. ⟨10.1364/OL.31.001426⟩. ⟨hal-00878202⟩