The applicability of the so-called isotropic complete photonic-band-gap (CPBG) models [S. John and J. Wang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2418 (1990)] to capture essential features of the spontaneous emission (SE) of a fluorescent atom or molecule near a band-gap-edge of a CPBG structure is discussed. PACS number: 32.80.-t Photon interactions with atoms PACS number: 42.70.Qs Photonic bandgap materials w...

Electromagnetic band structure can produce either an enhancement or a suppression of spontaneous emission from two-dimensional (2-D) photonic crystal thin films. We believe that such effects might be important for light emitting diodes. Our experiments were based on thin-film InGaAs/InP 2-D photonic crystals at ambient temperature, but the concepts would apply equally to InGaN thin films, for e...

Here, we demonstrate the broadband slow light effects in a new family of one dimensional photonic crystals, which are obtained by logically combining two photonic crystals of slightly different periods. The logical combination slowly destroys the original translational symmetries of the individual photonic crystals. Consequently, the Bloch modes of the individual photonic crystals with differen...

This work presents the first differential side channel analysis to exploit photonic emissions. We call this form of analysis Differential Photonic Emission Analysis (DPEA). After identifying a suitable area for the analysis, our system captures photonic emissions from switching transistors and relates them to the program running in the chip. The subsequent differential analysis reveals the secr...

Exciton-polaritons, in which the electronic state of an excited organic molecule and a photonic are strongly coupled, can form Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) at room temperature. However, so far, reported thresholds polariton BECs under optical excitation as high Pth = 11–500 μJ cm–2. One route toward lowering condensation threshold is to increase Rabi energy by aligning molecular transition di...

We demonstrate electrical tunability of a fiber laser using a liquid crystal photonic bandgap fiber. Tuning of the laser is achieved by combining the wavelength filtering effect of a tunable liquid crystal photonic bandgap fiber device with an ytterbium-doped photonic crystal fiber. We fabricate an all-spliced laser cavity based on the liquid crystal photonic bandgap fiber mounted on a silicon ...

The control of lateral mode operation using a photonic crystal in a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser ~VCSEL! is analyzed and confirmed experimentally. By controlling design parameters of the photonic crystal pattern, we have produced photonic crystal VCSELs that operate in higher order defect modes in addition to the fundamental defect mode. The transverse modal behavior is consistent wit...

The design, fabrication, and characterization of an integrated 2D photonic crystal stack are described for application as optical filters with improved optical density and angle tolerance compared to single photonic crystal slabs. The 2D photonic crystals are designed as polarization independent reflectance filters with a narrow spectral bandwidth centered at lambda=532 nm by utilizing the guid...

Here we demonstrate a novel quantitative procedure to pursue statistical studies on the geometric properties of photonic crystals and photonic quasicrystals (PQCs) which consist of separate dielectric particles. The geometric properties are quantified and correlated to the size of the photonic band gap (PBG) for wide permittivity range using three characteristic parameters: shape anisotropy, si...

Photonic crystal heterostructures, like their semiconductor quantum electronic counterparts, generate complex function from simple, well-understood building blocks. They have led to compact photonic crystal-based waveguides and record-quality-factor resonant cavities. Here the progress on the experimental realization of photonic crystal heterostructure devices, and on the development of conveni...