Photonic cavities and resonators, integral building blocks for many optical sub-systems and components, are easily addressed with Lumerical's products
Overview
Optical cavities and resonators are devices that trap light within a confined volume for some length of time. While such cavities are often built using bulk mirrors, micro- and nanocavities can be realized by realizing optical reflectors through the use of gratings, photonic crystals, nanoparticles or other such optical micro- and nanostructures.
Optical cavities are used as a fundamental building block for constructing a laser, and resonant absorption and bio/chemical sensing applications where it is advantageous to increase the interaction of light with some localized volume of material – for example, either with an absorbing semiconductor in the case of a solar cell or with a biological specimen in the case of a biosensor.
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"FDTD Solutions is essential for my research on optical microcavities. It dramatically outperforms the rival software in terms of speed, the transparent user environment, the analysis tools, and the support.
- Dr. Murray McCutcheon, Harvard University
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Benefits
FDTD Solutions can be used to calculate the following quantities of interest for cavity designers:
- Cavity mode profiles and polarization
- Calculation of round trip gain for different cavity modes
- Cavity Q-factors and resonant frequencies and polarization state of cavity modes
- Far-field electromagnetic profiles of cavity emission
- Coupling of external source to cavity modes
- Calculation of coupled cavities filter response
- Role of manufacturing imperfections on cavity/resonator response
- Analysis of ultrahigh Q cavities
Featured Publications Showcasing Lumerical's Products
| S. Mandal and D. Erickson, "Nanoscale optofluidic sensor arrays," Opt. Express 16, 1623-1631 (2008) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-16-3-1623 |
| Bhavin J. Bijlani and Amr S. Helmy, "Bragg reflection waveguide diode lasers," Opt. Lett. 34, 3734-3736 (2009) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-34-23-3734 |
| E. Bisaillon, D. Tan, B. Faraji, A. Kirk, L. Chrowstowski, and D. V. Plant, "High reflectivity air-bridge subwavelength grating reflector and Fabry-Perot cavity in AlGaAs/GaAs," Opt. Express 14, 2573-2582 (2006) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-14-7-2573 |
| Christopher Chase, Ye Zhou, and Connie J. Chang-Hasnain, "Size effect of high contrast gratings in VCSELs," Opt. Express 17, 24002-24007 (2009) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-26-24002 |
| Y. Chua, A.M. Mintairovb, Y. Heb, J.L. Merzb, N.A. Kalyuzhnyyc, V.M. Lantratovc and S.A. Mintairov, "Lasing of whispering-gallery modes in asymmetric waveguide GaInP micro-disks with InP quantum dots," Physics Letters A 373, 1185-1188 (2009) |
| L. Hou, P. Stolarz, R. Dylewicz, M. Haji, J. Javaloyes, B. Qiu, A. C. Bryce, "160-GHz Passively Mode-Locked AlGaInAs 1.55-um Strained Quantum-Well Compound Cavity Laser," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 22 , Issue 10, pp. 727-729 (2010). |
| D. Klotzkin, J.-S. Huang, H. Lu, T. Nguyen, T. Pinnington, R. Rajasekaran; H. Tan and C. Tsai, "An Overgrowth-Free Design for InGaAlAs Spot-Size-Converted Ridge Waveguide Lasers," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 13 975-977 (2007), DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.898824 |
| A. M. Mintairov, Y. Chu, Y. He, S. Blokhin, A. Nadtochy, M. Maximov, V. Tokranov, S. Oktyabrsky, and J. L. Merz, "High-spatial-resolution near-field photoluminescence and imaging of whispering-gallery modes in semiconductor microdisks with embedded quantum dots," Phys. Rev. B 77, 195322 (2008), DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.77.195322 |
| C. F. Wang, Y-S. Choi, J. C. Lee, E. L. Hu, J. Yang, and J. E. Butler, "Observation of whispering gallery modes in nanocrystalline diamond microdisks," Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 081110 (2007), DOI:10.1063/1.2709626 |
| Nanfang Yu, Mikhail A. Kats, Christian Pflugl, Markus Geiser, Qi Jie Wang, Mikhail A. Belkin, Federico Capasso, Milan Fischer, Andreas Wittmann, Jerome Faist, Tadataka Edamura, Shinichi Furuta, Masamichi Yamanishi, and Hirofumi Kan, "Multi-beam multi-wavelength semiconductor lasers," Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 161108 (2009), DOI:10.1063/1.3253713 |
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