High Q/Vm hybrid photonic-plasmonic crystal nanowire cavity at telecommunication wavelengths

Chih-Kai Chiang; Yi-Cheng Chung; Pi-Ju Cheng; Chien-Wei Wu; Shu-Wei Chang; Tzy-Rong Lin

doi:10.1117/12.2078541

16 March 2015 High Q/V_m hybrid photonic-plasmonic crystal nanowire cavity at telecommunication wavelengths

Chih-Kai Chiang, Yi-Cheng Chung, Pi-Ju Cheng, Chien-Wei Wu, Shu-Wei Chang, Tzy-Rong Lin

Proceedings Volume 9357, Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices XXIII; 93571J (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2078541
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We have analyzed a hybrid photonic-plasmonic crystal nanocavity consisting of a silicon grating nanowire adjacent to a metal surface with a gain gap between. The hybrid plasmonic cavity modes are highly confined in the gap due to the coupling of photonic crystal cavity modes and surface plasmonic gap modes. Using the finite-element method, we numerically solve guided modes of the hybrid plasmonic waveguide at a wavelength of 1.55 μm. The modal characteristics such as waveguide confinement factors and modal losses of the fundamental hybrid plasmonic modes are explored as a function of the groove depth at various gap heights. After that, we show the band structure of the hybrid crystal modes, corresponding to a wide band gap of 17.8 THz. To effectively trap the optical modes, we introduce a single defect into the hybrid crystal. At a deep sub-wavelength defect length as small as 180 nm, the resonant mode exhibits a high quality factor of 566.5 and an ultrasmall mode volume of 0.00186 (λ/n) ³ at the resonance wavelength of 1.55 μm. In comparison to the conventional photonic crystal nanowire cavity in the absence of metal surface, the figure of merit Q/V_m is enormously enhanced around 15 times. The proposed nanocavities open up the opportunities for various applications with strong light-matter interaction such as nanolasers and biosensors.

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Chih-Kai Chiang, Yi-Cheng Chung, Pi-Ju Cheng, Chien-Wei Wu, Shu-Wei Chang, and Tzy-Rong Lin "High Q/V_m hybrid photonic-plasmonic crystal nanowire cavity at telecommunication wavelengths", Proc. SPIE 9357, Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices XXIII, 93571J (16 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2078541

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