Fast dispersion tailoring of multimode photonic crystal resonators

Abstract

We introduce a numerical procedure which permits to drastically accelerate the design of multimode photonic crystal resonators. Specifically, we demonstrate that the optical response of an important class of such nanoscale structures is reproduced accurately by a simple, one-dimensional model, within the entire spectral range of interest. This model can describe a variety of tapered photonic crystal structures. Orders of magnitude faster to solve, our approach can be used to optimize certain properties of the nanoscale cavity. Here we consider the case of a nanobeam cavity, where the confinement results from the modulation of its width. The profile of the width is optimized, in order to flatten the resonator dispersion profile (so that all modes are equally spaced in frequency). This result is particularly relevant for miniaturizing parametric generators of non-classical light, optical nano-combs and mode-locked laser sources. Our method can be easily extended to complex geometries, described by multiple parameters.

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