Quantifying the intrinsic amount of fabrication disorder in photonic-crystal waveguides from optical far-field intensity measurements

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  • Pedro David Garcia-Fernandez
  • Alisa Javadi
  • Henri Thyrrestrup Nielsen
  • Lodahl, Peter
Residual disorder due to fabrication imperfections has important impact in nanophotonics where it may degrade device performance by increasing radiation loss or spontaneously trap light by Anderson localization. We propose and demonstrate experimentally a method of quantifying the intrinsic amount of disorder in state-of-the-art photonic-crystal waveguides from far-field
measurements of the Anderson-localized modes. This is achieved by comparing the spectral range where Anderson localization is observed to numerical simulations, and the method offers sensitivity down to 1nm.
Original languageEnglish
Article number031101
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume102
Number of pages4
ISSN0003-6951
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Jan 2013

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