Micro- and nanophotonic technologies / edited by Patrick Meyrueis, Kazuaki Sakoda, and Marcel Van de Voorde.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meyrueis, Patrick, editor.

Sakoda, Kazuaki, 1957- editor.

Van de Voorde, Marcel, editor.

Series:

Nanotechnology Innovation & Applications

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photonics.

Nanophotonics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (557 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Weinheim, Germany : Wiley-VCH, 2017.

Summary:

Edited and authored by leading experts from top institutions in Europe, the US and Asia, this comprehensive overview of micro- and nanophotonics covers the physical and chemical fundamentals, while clearly focusing on the technologies and applications in industrial R&D. As such, the book reports on the four main areas of telecommunications and display technologies; light conversion and energy generation; light-based fabrication of materials; and micro- and nanophotonic devices in metrology and control.

Contents:

Micro- and Nanophotonic Technologies

Series Editor Preface

About the Series Editor

Contents

Foreword

Preface

An Overview of Micro- and Nanophotonic Science and Technology

1 Global Scale of the Subject

2 A Brief History

3 Characteristics

3.1 Propagation

3.2 Localization

3.3 Dispersion

4 Prospects and Outlook

Acknowledgment

References

Part One: From Research to Application

1: Nanophotonics: From Fundamental Research to Applications

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Application of Photonic Crystals to Solar Cells

1.3 Antireflecting Periodic Structures

1.4 Black Silicon

1.5 Metamaterials for Wide-Band Filtering

1.6 Rough Surfaces with Controlled Statistics

1.7 Enhancement of Absorption in Organic Solar Cells with Plasmonic Nano Particles

1.8 Quantum Dot Solar Cells

1.9 Conclusions

Acknowledgments

2: Photonic Crystal and Plasmonic Microcavities

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Photonic Crystal Microcavity

2.3 Purcell Effect

2.3.1 Purcell Factor

2.3.2 GaAs Quantum Dots in PC Microcavity

2.4 Plasmonic Microcavity

2.4.1 Enhanced MD Radiation

2.4.2 Enhanced ED Radiation

2.4.3 Multimode Cavity

3: Unconventional Thermal Emission from Photonic Crystals

3.1 Introduction

3.2 3D Photonic Crystals

3.3 2D Photonic Crystals

3.4 1D Photonic Crystals

3.5 Summary

4: Extremely Small Bending Loss of Organic Polaritonic Fibers

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Exciton-Polariton Waveguiding in TC Nanofibers

4.2.1 Synthesis and Characterization of TC Nanofibers

4.2.2 Mechanism of Active Waveguiding in TC Nanofibers

4.3 Miniaturized Photonic Circuit Components Constructed from TC Nanofibers

4.3.1 Asymmetric Mach-Zehnder Interferometers

4.3.2 Microring Resonators

4.3.3 Microring Resonator Channel Drop Filters.

4.4 Theoretical Analysis

4.4.1 Dispersion Relation

4.4.2 Bending Loss

5: Plasmon Color Filters and Phase Controllers

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Optical Filter Based on Surface Plasmon Resonance

5.2.1 Light Transmission through Hole and Slit Arrays

5.2.1.1 Hole Arrays

5.2.1.2 Nanoslit Arrays

5.2.2 Fabrication and Measurement

5.2.3 Transmission Characteristics

5.2.3.1 Hole Arrays

5.2.3.2 Nanoslit Arrays

5.3 Transmission Phase Control by Stacked Metal-Dielectric Hole Array

5.3.1 Verification of Transmission Phase Control by a Uniform SHA

5.3.2 Numerical Study of Transition SHA for Inclined Wavefront Formation

5.3.3 Experimental Confirmation of Uniform SHA

5.3.4 Experimental Confirmation of Transition SHA

5.4 Summary

6: Entangled Photon Pair Generation in Naturally Symmetric Quantum Dots Grown by Droplet Epitaxy

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Quantum Dot Photon-pair Source

6.3 Natural Growth of Symmetric Quantum Dots

6.4 Droplet Epitaxy of GaAs Quantum Dots on AlGaAs(1 1 1)A

6.5 Characterization of Entanglement

6.6 Violation of Bell's Inequality

6.7 Quantum-state Tomography and Other Entanglement Measures

7: Single-Photon Generation from Nitrogen Isoelectronic Traps in III-V Semiconductors

7.1 Introduction

7.2 What is Isoelectronic Trap?

7.3 GaP:N Case

7.3.1 Macro-PL from Bulk GaP:N

7.3.2 &amp

micro

-PL of NN Pairs in δ-Doped GaP:N

7.3.3 Single-Photon Emission from δ-Doped GaP:N

7.4 GaAs:N Case

7.4.1 Overview of Isoelectronic Traps in GaAs

7.4.2 NX Centers in δ-Doped GaAs:N

7.4.2.1 Growth Conditions and Macro-PL

7.4.2.2 &amp

-PL of NX Centers and Single-Photon Emission

7.4.3 Energy-Defined N-Related Centers in δ-Doped GaAs:N

7.4.3.1 Growth Conditions and Macro-PL

7.4.3.2 &amp

micro.

PL of NNA and Single-Photon Emission

7.5 Summary

8: Parity-Time Symmetry in Free Space Optics

8.1 Parity-Time Symmetry in Diffractive Optics

8.1.1 Spectral, Angular, and Polarization Selectivity

8.1.2 Time Multiplexing: Dynamic Gratings and Holograms

8.1.3 From Conventional Amplitude/Phase Modulations to Phase/Gain/Loss Modulations

8.1.4 Implementation of Parity-Time Symmetry in Optics

8.1.4.1 Thick and Thin Gratings

8.2 Free Space Diffraction on Active Gratings with Balanced Phase and Gain/Loss Modulations

8.2.1 Raman-Nath PT-Symmetric Diffraction

8.2.1.1 Raman-Nath Diffraction Regime

8.2.1.2 Intermediate and Bragg Diffraction Regimes

Arbitrary Incidence

Normal Incidence

8.2.1.3 Summary

8.3 PT-Symmetric Volume Holograms in Transmission Mode

8.3.1 Second-Order Coupled Mode Equations

8.3.2 Two-Mode Solution for θ=θB

8.3.3 Analytic Solution for Balanced PT-Symmetric Grating for Arbitrary Angle of Incidence

8.3.4 Filled Space PT-Symmetric Grating

8.3.5 Symmetric Slab Configuration

8.3.6 Asymmetric Slab Configurations

8.3.6.1 Light Incident from the Substrate Side: ε3 = 1

8.3.6.2 Light Incident from the Air: ε1 = 1

8.3.6.3 Reflective Setup

8.3.7 Discussion

8.4 Analysis of Unidirectional Nonparaxial Invisibility of Purely Reflective PT-Symmetric Volume Gratings

8.4.1 Introduction

8.4.2 Analytic Solution for First Three Bragg Orders for a Balanced PT-Symmetric Grating

8.4.3 Zeroth Diffractive Orders in Transmission and Reflection

8.4.4 Higher Diffractive Orders

8.4.4.1 First Diffraction Orders

8.4.4.2 Second Diffraction Orders

8.4.5 Filled Space PT-Symmetric Gratings

8.4.5.1 Filled Space PT-Symmetric Grating Implies ε1 = ε2 = ε3

8.4.6 Reflective PT-Symmetric Gratings with Fresnel Reflections.

8.4.6.1 Symmetric Geometry ε1 = ε3 = 1

ε2 = 2.4

8.4.6.2 Asymmetric Slab Configuration

Grating Located to the Left of Substrate: ε1 = 1

ε3 = 2

Grating Located to the Right of Substrate: ε1 = 2

ε3 = 1

8.5 Summary and Conclusions

9: Parity-Time Symmetric Cavities: Intrinsically Single-Mode Lasing

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Resonant Cavities Based on two PT-Symmetric Diffractive Gratings

9.2.1 PT-Symmetric Bragg Grating

9.2.2 Concatenation of Two Gratings

9.2.3 Temporal Characteristics

9.2.4 Summary

9.3 Distributed Bragg Reflector Structures Based on PT-Symmetric Coupling with Lowest Possible Lasing Threshold

9.3.1 Grating-Assisted Codirectional Coupler with PT Symmetry

9.3.2 Threshold Condition in DBR Lasers

9.3.3 DBR Lasers with PT-Symmetrical GACC Output

9.3.4 Transfer Matrix Description of the DBR Structure with PT-Symmetrical GACC Output

9.4 Unique Optical Characteristics of a Fabry-Perot Resonator with Embedded PT-Symmetrical Grating

9.4.1 Transfer Matrix for Fabry-Perot Cavity with a Single PT-SBG

9.4.2 Absorption and Amplification Modes along with Lasing Characteristics

9.4.2.1 Fully Constructive Cavity Interaction

9.4.2.2 Partially Constructive Cavity Interaction

9.4.2.3 Partially Destructive Cavity Interaction

9.4.2.4 Fully Destructive Cavity Interaction

9.5 Summary and Conclusions

10: Silicon Quantum Dot Composites for Nanophotonics

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Core-Shell Type Nanocomposites

10.3 Polymer Encapsulation

10.4 Micelle Encapsulation

10.5 Summary

Part Two: Breakthrough Applications

11: Ultrathin Polarizers and Waveplates Made of Metamaterials

11.1 Concept and Practice of Subwavelength Optical Devices.

11.1.1 Conceptual Classification of Polarization-Controlling Optical Devices

11.1.2 Construction of Optical Devices Using Jones Matrices

11.1.3 UV NIL

11.2 Ultrathin Polarizers

11.3 Ultrathin Waveplates

11.3.1 Ultrathin Waveplates Made of Stratified Metal-Dielectric MMs

11.3.2 Ultrathin Waveplates of Other Structures

11.4 Constructions of Functional Subwavelength Devices

11.5 Summary and Prospects

12: Nanoimprint Lithography for the Fabrication of Metallic Metasurfaces

12.1 Introduction

12.2 UV-NIL

12.3 Large-Area SP-RGB Color Filter Using UV-NIL

12.3.1 Introduction

12.3.2 Device Design

12.3.3 Device Fabrication and Transmission Characteristics

12.4 Emission-Enhanced Plasmonic Metasurfaces Fabricated by NIL

12.4.1 Introduction

12.4.2 SC-PlC Structure

12.4.3 Fabrication and Optical Characterization of SC-PlC

12.5 Metasurface Thermal Emitters for Infrared CO2 Detection by UV-NIL

12.5.1 Introduction

12.5.2 Metasurface Design

12.5.3 Device Fabrication and Optical Properties

12.6 Summary

13: Applications to Optical Communication

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Optical Fiber and Propagation Impairments

13.2.1 Guiding Necessity

13.2.2 Multimode and Single-Mode Fibers

13.2.3 Rayleigh Diffusion as the Limiting Factor for Optical Fiber Attenuation

13.2.4 A Huge Available Bandwidth Resource

13.2.5 dispersions as the bit-rate limitations

13.2.5.1 Group Velocity Dispersion

13.2.5.2 Polarization Mode Dispersion

13.2.5.3 bit-rate limitations

13.2.5.4 Overcoming the Dispersion Limitations

13.2.6 Fiber Nonlinearity

13.2.7 New Fiber Materials and Structures

13.3 Basics of Functional Devices

13.3.1 Optical Sources

13.3.1.1 Light Emission in Semiconductor

13.3.1.2 Semiconductor Laser Single-Mode Operation.

13.3.1.3 Interband Dynamics as Direct Modulation Limitation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 10, 2017).

ISBN:

9783527699957

3527699953

9783527699940

3527699945

OCLC:

980848527