An air-slotted nanoresonator relying on coupled high Q small V Fabry-Perot nanocavities

We study here the lateral evanescent coupling between photonic crystals cavities. The structure consists in two identical monomode Fabry–Perot nanocavities, integrated on silicon-on-insulator slot-waveguides (WG). Spectral and optical near field measurements were led and supported quantitatively by three dimensional simulations. It appears that this system produces a bimodal response: two resonances corresponding, respectively, to an even and odd mode. Particularly, the even case exhibits a field localization in the air slot inferior to λair/10. We demonstrate that merging a slotted WG structure with state-of-the-art nanocavities is a significant step toward an efficient air-slotted resonator.

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