Micro/nanoscale radiation energy transfer is investigated in optical microcavity and waveguide coupling structures working on whispering-gallery mode optical resonances. The finite element method is employed for solving the Helmholtz equations that govern the energy transfer and time-harmonics electromagnetic (EM) wave propagation. The maximum element size concept is introduced for the numerica...

A modified hybrid waveguide with a wide-range coupling and long propagation has been proposed and the coupled mode theory has been applied to study the hybrid waveguide systematically. Two structures are comparatively discussed, namely, a dielectric wire and a circular capillary tube, which are buried in a polymer matrix and separated from the silver substrate by a gap. The simulated results in...

This paper presents a novel concept of half wavelength doubleridged half height rectangular waveguide resonator. The basic design consists of a double-ridged rectangular waveguide placed between two rectangular waveguide WR2300. The resonance frequency, bandwidth, Q factor etc. can be controlled by varying the ridge parameters such as ridge length, width, height, ridge gap width, ridge gap heig...

We characterize planar microcavities in whispering-gallery mode optical resonances. The microcavity consists of a waveguide and a microdisk, and a nanoscale gap separates the waveguide and the microdisk. The devices can be fabricated on Si-based thin films by using conventional microelectronics techniques. To characterize these types of cavity, we study a broad range of resonator configuration ...

The authors present the design and fabrication of a nanophotonic waveguide and photodetector integrated device by molecular self-assembly of nanocrystal quantum dots (QD) and two different nano-gap formation techniques, namely electromigration-induced break-junction technique and electron beam lithography nano-gap patterning. A QD waveguide with 50 nm width integrated with a nano-scale QD photo...

We demonstrate that in a hybrid plasmonic system the optical force exerted on a dielectric waveguide by a metallic substrate is enhanced by more than 1 order of magnitude compared to the force between a photonic waveguide and a dielectric substrate. A nanoscale gap between the dielectric waveguide and the metallic substrate leads to deep subwavelength optical energy confinement with ultralow mo...

We show, via simulations, that an optical fiber taper waveguide can be an efficient tool for photoluminescence and resonant, extinction spectroscopy of single emitters, such as molecules or colloidal quantum dots, deposited on the surface of a thin dielectric membrane. Placed over a high refractive index membrane, a tapered fiber waveguide induces the formation of hybrid mode waves, akin to die...

In this letter, a half-mode waveguide based on gap (GW) technology for rapid prototyping is explored. Two devices have been designed and measured demonstration purposes: power divider curved waveguide. Both are constructed from two noncontacting metal pieces. also follow the same design process. bottom piece, horizontally polarized groove GW (GGW) housed. The height of about half, which require...

This report characterizes the whispering-gallery mode (WGM) resonators with the design of waveguide and microdisk coupling microstructure. In order to understand and optimize the design, studies over a broad range of resonator configuration parameters including the microdisk size, the gap separating the microdisk and waveguide, and the waveguide width are numerically conducted. The finite eleme...

We investigate the feasibility of CMOS-compatible optical structures to develop novel integrated spectroscopy systems. We show that local field enhancement is achievable utilizing dimers of plasmonic nanospheres that can be assembled from colloidal solutions on top of a CMOS-compatible optical waveguide. The resonant dimer nanoantennas are excited by modes guided in the integrated silicon nitri...