Measurement of bound states in the continuum by a detector embedded in a photonic crystal

Roman Gansch; Stefan Kalchmair; Patrice Genevet; Tobias Zederbauer; Hermann Detz; Aaron M Andrews; Werner Schrenk; Federico Capasso; Marko Lončar; Gottfried Strasser

doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.147

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Measurement of bound states in the continuum by a detector embedded in a photonic crystal

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- Measurement of bound states in the continuum by a detector embedded in a photonic crystal
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 5, Issue 4, (2016)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Institute for Solid State Electronics, Vienna University of Technology, Floragasse 7, 1040 Vienna, Austria
  2.School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
  3.Centre de Recherche sur l'Hétéro-Epitaxie et ses Application, CNRS, Rue Bernard Gregory, Sophia-Antipolis, 06560 Valbonne, France
- Author bio：
  
  S Kalchmair, Email: skalchmair@seas.harvard.edu
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2016.147
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- Published：2016-12，
  
  Published Online：07 April 2016，
  
  Received：21 October 2015，
  
  Revised：31 March 2016，
  
  Accepted：05 April 2016
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Gansch, R. et al. Measurement of bound states in the continuum by a detector embedded in a photonic crystal. Light: Science & Applications, 5, e16147 (2016).
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Gansch, R. et al. Measurement of bound states in the continuum by a detector embedded in a photonic crystal. Light: Science & Applications, 5, e16147 (2016). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2016.147.

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Abstract

We directly measure optical bound states in the continuum (BICs) by embedding a photodetector into a photonic crystal slab. The BICs observed in our experiment are the result of accidental phase matching between incident

reflected and in-plane waves at seemingly random wave vectors in the photonic band structure. Our measurements were confirmed through a rigorously coupled-wave analysis simulation in conjunction with temporal coupled mode theory. Polarization mixing between photonic crystal slab modes was observed and described using a plane wave expansion simulation. The ability to probe the field intensity inside the photonic crystal and thereby to directly measure BICs represents a milestone in the development of integrated opto-electronic devices based on BICs.

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embedded eigenvaluesphotonic crystalsphotodetector

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