Novel Doubly Nano-Scale Perturbative Resonance Control of a Free-Suspending Photonic Crystal Structure

Abstract:

The impact of developing nanophotonic components have proven to be a promising research on the future optical integrated circuit complementing the current scaling of semiconductors for faster board-board, chip-chip interconnect speeds. Essentially photonic crystals (PhC) symbolize an emerging class of periodic nanomaterials that offers flexibilities in achieving novel devices. Based on the investigations of the high-Q resonance mode energy distributions, we optimized the nano­scale tip for optimal perturbative effect with low loss resonance control in the optical near field regime. In this study to achieve larger spectral resonance, we proposed using a novel doubly nano­scale perturbative tip to achieve optimal accurate photonic crystal resonance control. Such method may be driven by a nano-electromechanical (NEMS) system that may be fabricated with monolithic approaches.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 83)
• Pages: 147-150
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.83.147
• Online since: July 2011
• Authors: Xiong Yeu Chew, Guang Ya Zhou, Fook Siong Chau
• Keywords: MEMS/NEMS, Micro-Fabrication, Nanophotonics, Optical Device, Photonic Crystal (PC)

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