GaN blue photonic crystal membrane nanocavities

GaN-based photonic-crystal membrane nanocavities with Q factors up to 800 have been realized at the wavelength of ∼480nm. The tuning behavior agrees well with numerical calculations using the finite-difference time-domain method. Theoretically, the lowest energy mode of a cavity that consists of seven missing holes in the Γ-K direction promises a Q factor as high as 4×104 with a mode volume of about 1.3×(λ∕n)3.GaN-based photonic-crystal membrane nanocavities with Q factors up to 800 have been realized at the wavelength of ∼480nm. The tuning behavior agrees well with numerical calculations using the finite-difference time-domain method. Theoretically, the lowest energy mode of a cavity that consists of seven missing holes in the Γ-K direction promises a Q factor as high as 4×104 with a mode volume of about 1.3×(λ∕n)3.

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