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Coupled-mode theory and propagation losses in photonic crystal waveguides

Ségolène Olivier 1 Henri Benisty 2 Claude Weisbuch 1, 2 Christopher J. M. Smith 3 Thomas F. Krauss 4 Romuald Houdré 5
1 LPMC - Laboratoire de physique de la matière condensée
2 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Naphel
LCFIO - Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique
3 Optoelectronics Research Group
4 School of Astronomy
5 Institut de Photonique et d'Electronique Quantiques
Abstract : Mode coupling phenomena, manifested by transmission "mini-stopbands", occur in two-dimensional photonic crystal channel waveguides. The huge difference in the group velocities of the coupled modes is a new feature with respect to the classical Bragg reflection occurring, e.g., in distributed feedback lasers. We show that an adequate ansatz of the classical coupled-mode theory remarkably well accounts for this new phenomenon. The fit of experimental transmission data from GaAs-based photonic crystal waveguides then leads to an accurate determination of the propagation losses of both fundamental and higher, low-group-velocity modes.
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Ségolène Olivier, Henri Benisty, Claude Weisbuch, Christopher J. M. Smith, Thomas F. Krauss, et al.. Coupled-mode theory and propagation losses in photonic crystal waveguides. Optics Express, Optical Society of America - OSA Publishing, 2003, 11 (13), pp.1490-1496. ⟨10.1364/OE.11.001490⟩. ⟨hal-00878529⟩

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