Organic and Inorganic Hybrid Devices (Photonics Technologies)

摘要

We report the fabrication and device applications of the nonlinear photonic crystals (PhCs) which combines PhC functions for controlling the light dispersion characteristics and highly nonlinear optical organic materials. We reveal a direct relationship between the observed nonlinear optical responses and the corresponding photonic band dispersion nature such as a slow light in the nonlinear PhCs, and we show experimental evidence that the performance of nonlinear optical applications such as the optical switch, wavelength conversion and two-photon absorption devices are dramatically improved in this structure. Moreover, we report on the design and experimental demonstration of an integrated Mach-Zehnder electro-optic (EO) modulator based on the silicon PhC waveguides combined with an EO polymer exhibiting large electro-optic properties.