Directive emission from high-Q photonic crystal cavities through band folding

A new design is proposed for tailoring the farfield of high-Q photonic crystal nanocavities. We achieved experimentally a six-fold improvement of the collection efficiency. This will improve single photon sources based on photonic crystals considerably.

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