Stretchable Photonic Crystal Cavity with Wide Frequency Tunability
Nano Letters2012Vol. 13(1), pp. 248–252
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Chun L. Yu, Hyunwoo Kim, Nathalie P. de Leon, Ian W. Frank, Jacob T. Robinson, Murray W. McCutcheon, Mingzhao Liu, Mikhail D. Lukin, Marko Lončar, Hongkun Park
Abstract
We report a new approach for realizing a flexible photonic crystal (PC) cavity that enables wide-range tuning of its resonance frequency. Our PC cavity consists of a regular array of silicon nanowires embedded in a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) matrix and exhibits a cavity resonance in the telecommunication band that can be reversibly tuned over 60 nm via mechanical stretching-a record for two-dimensional (2D) PC structures. These mechanically reconfigurable devices could find potential applications in integrated photonics, sensing in biological systems, and smart materials.
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