Abstract

Two types of ultra-high-Q monopole modes are designed in a woodpile three-dimensional photonic crystal. The unit cell size modulation is applied to a woodpile photonic crystal waveguide in a complete photonic band gap. A monopole mode overlapping with a dielectric rod is designed for solid-state sub-wavelength-scale light-matter interaction devices such as nanolasers, cavity-QED and optical switches, whereas another type of monopole mode overlapping with vacuum is designed for optical trapping experiments. For the mode overlapping with vacuum, the mode volume is as small as 0.4 cubic half-wavelengths.

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History
Original Manuscript: December 15, 2008
Manuscript Accepted: January 19, 2009
Revised Manuscript: January 16, 2009
Published: January 22, 2009

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Author Affiliations

Lingling Tang, Tomoyuki Yoshie

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, Duke University

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