Local tuning of photonic crystal cavities using chalcogenide glasses

Faraon, Andrei; Englund, Dirk; Bulla, Douglas; Luther-Davies, Barry; Eggleton, Benjamin J.; Stoltz, Nick; Petroff, Pierre; Vučković, Jelena

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Local tuning of photonic crystal cavities using chalcogenide glasses

Date

2008-05-01

Authors

Eggleton, Benjamin J.

Stoltz, Nick

Petroff, Pierre

Vučković, Jelena

Abstract

We developed a method to locally tune refractive index in photonic crystals. The technique, based on photodarkening of chalcogenide glasses, enables 3nm resonance tuning of GaAs photonic crystal cavities operating at 940nm.