Photonic crystal nanocavities that simultaneously possess small modal volumes and high
quality (Q) factors have opened up novel research areas in photonics during this decade …

Photonic-plasmonic hybrid microcavities, which possess a higher figure of merit Q/V (the
ratio of quality factor to mode volume) than that of pure photonic microcavities or pure …

High quality factor and small mode volume in nanocavities enable the demonstration of
efficient nanophotonic devices with low power consumption, strong nonlinearity, and high …

While there have been notable advancements in Si-based optical integration, achieving
compact and efficient continuous-wave (CW) III-V semiconductor nanolasers on Si at room …

Silicon is now firmly established as a high performance photonic material. Its only weakness
is the lack of a native electrically driven light emitter that operates CW at room temperature …

We report a high-Q design for a semiconductor-based two-dimensional zero-cell photonic
crystal (PhC) nanocavity with a small mode volume. The optimization of displacements of …

Photonic crystal nanolasers have a drawback of weak vertical emission, which degrades the
detection efficiency from above. We show that the vertical emission is enhanced greatly by …

Optical nanocavities confine and store light, which is essential to increase the interaction
between photons and electrons in semiconductor devices, enabling, eg, lasers and …

In this study, an ultracompact tunable laser with InGaAsP photonic crystal nanorods for
optical communication was demonstrated within 10-μm footprint. The square photonic …

We introduce an accurate and fast finite‐difference time‐domain (FDTD) method for
calculating light absorption in nanoscale optical systems. The dispersive FDTD update …