Design and demonstration of high quality-factor H1-cavity in two-dimensional photonic crystal

Abstract

We introduce a method for designing an H1 photonic crystal cavity to enhance its quality factor (Q factor). The highest theoretical Q factor of 120,000 is obtained. The Fourier transformation of field distribution shows that the enhancement arises from the component reduction of a leaky mode. The Q-factor improvement has also been demonstrated experimentally with the highest value of 11,700. Our design could be useful for studying light-matter interaction in an H1 cavity as the mode volume only increases slightly. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America