Micro- and Nanophotonic Technologies

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.

Auteur
Patrick Meyrueis is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Strasbourg, France. He started his career as an engineer of the French Department of Industry and took up a position as Associate Professor at the University Louis Pasteur (now University of Strasbourg) in 1981 where he founded the Photonics Group, which he headed until 1987. He then moved on to become founder and head of the Photonics System Laboratory which was one of the most advanced labs in the field of planar digital optics (now Icube Institute). Patrick Meyrueis is the author of more than 200 publications, 100 patents and several books. He was the chairman of more than 20 international conferences in photonics.

Kazuaki Sakoda is Professor in the Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences at Tsukuba University, Japan, and Managing Researcher of the Research Center for Functional Materials at the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS). After his BE and ME degrees, obtained from Tokyo University, he worked as Senior Researcher at TORAY Industries, Inc. for eleven years. Kazuaki Sakoda received his PhD in Applied Physics from Tokyo University in 1992 and continued his academic career as Associate Professor in the Research Institute for Electronic Science at Hokkaido University before taking up his current positions.

Marcel Van de Voorde has 40 years' experience in European Research Organisations including CERN-Geneva, European Commission, with 10 years at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, Germany. For many years, he was involved in research and research strategies, policy and management, especially in European research institutions. He holds a Professorship at the University of Technology in Delft, the Netherland, as well as multiple visiting professorships in Europe and worldwide. He holds a doctor honoris causa and various honorary Professorships.
He is senator of the European Academy for Sciences and Arts, in Salzburg and Fellow of the World Academy for Sciences. He is a Fellow of various scientific societies and has been decorated by the Belgian King. He has authored of multiple scientific and technical publications and co-edited multiple books in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Contenu

Foreword XXIII

Preface XXV

An Overview of Micro- and Nanophotonic Science and Technology XXVII

Part One From Research to Application 1

1 Nanophotonics: From Fundamental Research to Applications 3
*François Flory, Ludovic Escoubas, Judikael Le Rouzo, and Gérard Berginc*

1.1 Introduction 3

1.2 Application of Photonic Crystals to Solar Cells 5

1.3 Antireflecting Periodic Structures 8

1.4 Black Silicon 10

1.5 Metamaterials for Wide-Band Filtering 14

1.6 Rough Surfaces with Controlled Statistics 16

1.7 Enhancement of Absorption in Organic Solar Cells with Plasmonic Nano Particles 19

1.8 Quantum Dot Solar Cells 20

1.9 Conclusions 24

Acknowledgments 24

References 24

2 Photonic Crystal and Plasmonic Microcavities 29
*Kazuaki Sakoda*

2.1 Introduction 29

2.2 Photonic Crystal Microcavity 32

2.3 Purcell Effect 38

2.3.1 Purcell Factor 38

2.3.2 GaAs Quantum Dots in PC Microcavity 39

2.4 Plasmonic Microcavity 41

2.4.1 Enhanced MD Radiation 42

2.4.2 Enhanced ED Radiation 46

2.4.3 Multimode Cavity 47

References 50

3 Unconventional Thermal Emission from Photonic Crystals 51
Hideki T. Miyazaki

3.1 Introduction 51

3.2 3D Photonic Crystals 52

3.3 2D Photonic Crystals 57

3.4 1D Photonic Crystals 60

3.5 Summary 61

References 61

4 Extremely Small Bending Loss of Organic Polaritonic Fibers 65
*Ken Takazawa, Hiroyuki Takeda, and Kazuaki Sakoda*

4.1 Introduction 65

4.2 ExcitonPolariton Waveguiding in TC Nanofibers 66

4.2.1 Synthesis and Characterization of TC Nanofibers 66

4.2.2 Mechanism of Active Waveguiding in TC Nanofibers 67

4.3 Miniaturized Photonic Circuit Components Constructed from TC Nanofibers 69

4.3.1 Asymmetric MachZehnder Interferometers 69

4.3.2 Microring Resonators 71

4.3.3 Microring Resonator Channel Drop Filters 74

4.4 Theoretical Analysis 76

4.4.1 Dispersion Relation 76

4.4.2 Bending Loss 78

References 80

5 Plasmon Color Filters and Phase Controllers 81
*Yoshimasa Sugimoto, Daisuke Inoue, and Takayuki Matsui*

5.1 Introduction 81

5.2 Optical Filter Based on Surface Plasmon Resonance 82

5.2.1 Light Transmission through Hole and Slit Arrays 83

5.2.1.1 Hole Arrays 83

5.2.1.2 Nanoslit Arrays 85

5.2.2 Fabrication and Measurement 87

5.2.3 Transmission Characteristics 89

5.2.3.1 Hole Arrays 89

5.2.3.2 Nanoslit Arrays 91

5.3 Transmission Phase Control by Stacked Metal-Dielectric Hole Array 92

5.3.1 Verification of Transmission Phase Control by a Uniform SHA 93

5.3.2 Numerical Study of Transition SHA for Inclined Wavefront Formation 95

5.3.3 Experimental Confirmation of Uniform SHA 95

5.3.4 Experimental Confirmation of Transition SHA 97

5.4 Summary 99

References 100

6 Entangled Photon Pair Generation in Naturally Symmetric Quantum Dots Grown by Droplet Epitaxy 103
*Takashi Kuroda*

6.1 Introduction 103

6.2 Quantum Dot Photon-pair Source 105

6.3 Natural Growth of Symmetric Quantum Dots 108

6.4 Droplet Epitaxy of GaAs Quantum Dots on AlGaAs(1 1 1)A 109

6.5 Characterization of Entanglement 112

6.6 Violation of Bell's Inequality 115

6.7 Quantum-state Tomography and Other Entanglement Measures 118

References 121

7 Single-Photon Generation from Nitrogen Isoelectronic Traps in IIIV Semiconductors 125
*Yoshiki Sakuma, Michio Ikezawa, and Liao Zhang*

7.1 Introduction 125 7.2 What is Isoelectronic T...