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Published December 14, 2012 | Published
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High-Q impurity photon states bounded by a photonic band pseudogap in an optically thick photonic crystal slab

Abstract

We show that, taking a two-dimensional photonic crystal slab system as an example, surprisingly high quality factors (Q) over 10^5 are achievable, even in the absence of a rigorous photonic band gap. We find that the density of in-plane Bloch modes can be controlled by creating additional photon feedback from a finite-size photonic-crystal boundary that serves as a low-Q resonator. This mechanism enables significant reduction in the coupling strength between the bound state and the extended Bloch modes by more than a factor of 40.

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© 2012 American Physical Society. Received 6 September 2012; revised manuscript received 28 November 2012; published 14 December 2012. This work was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under the Nanoscale Architecture for Coherent Hyperoptical Sources program (W911NF-07-1-0277) and by the National Science Foundation under NSF CIAN ERC (EEC-0812072). A.H. appreciates the generous support of the ARCS Foundation.

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