We present a new method for sensitivity analysis of photonic crystal devices. The algorithm is based on a finite-difference frequency-domain model and uses the adjoint variable method and perturbation theory techniques. We show that our method is highly efficient and accurate and can be applied to calculation of the sensitivity of transmission parameters of resonant nanophotonic devices.

Strongly confined photonic modes can couple to quantum emitters and mechanical excitations. To harness the full potential in quantum photonic circuits, interactions between different constituents have to be precisely and dynamically controlled. Here, a prototypical coupled element, a photonic molecule defined in a photonic crystal membrane, is controlled by a radio frequency surface acoustic wa...

Spectral dispersion of light on a finite-size surface plasmon polaritonic (SPP) crystal has been studied. The angular wavelength separation of one or more orders of magnitude higher than in other state-of-the-art wavelength-splitting devices available to date has been demonstrated. The two-stage process is responsible for the dispersion value, which involves conversion of the incident light int...

We experimentally demonstrate an efficient and robust method for series connection of photonic crystal microcavities that are coupled to photonic crystal waveguides in the slow light transmission regime. We demonstrate that group index taper engineering provides excellent optical impedance matching between the input and output strip waveguides and the photonic crystal waveguide, a nearly flat t...

We present a new method for sensitivity analysis of photonic crystal devices. The algorithm is based on a finite-difference frequency-domain model and uses the adjoint variable method and perturbation theory techniques. We show that our method is highly efficient and accurate and can be applied to calculation of the sensitivity of transmission parameters of resonant nanophotonic devices. © 2004...

Photo-electrochemical water splitting is a very promising and environmentally friendly route for the conversion of solar energy into hydrogen. However, the solar-to-H2 conversion efficiency is still very low due to rapid bulk recombination of charge carriers. Here, a photonic nano-architecture is developed to improve charge carrier generation and separation by manipulating and confining light a...

Photonic crystal line defect waveguides show high group velocity dispersion and slow photon effect near transmission band edge. The group index of the fabricated silicon photonic crystal line defect waveguide is experimentally demonstrated as high as 45 at optical wavelength around 1558 nm. The group velocity dispersion of the fabricated silicon photonic crystal line defect waveguide is as high...

1. Introduction Much recent progress in silicon nanophotonic technology has enabled the prospect of high-performance nano-photonic networks-on-chip (NoCs), which have become very attractive solutions to the growing bandwidth and power consumption challenges of future high-performance chip multiprocessors [1–4]. The design of our high-performance nanophotonic NoC commences at the individual sili...

Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology has made personal mobile computing and communications an everyday part of life. In this paper we present a nanophotonic integrated CMOS-based biosensor that will pave the way for future personalized medical diagnostics. To achieve our aim, we have monolithically integrated plasmonic nanostructures with a CMOS photodiode. Following this a...