Periodic subwavelength photonic structures
Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2015.
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| author | Ye, Erika |
| author2 | Rajeev Ram. |
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| description | Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2015. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1112872019-04-12T22:37:37Z Periodic subwavelength photonic structures Application of subwavelength photonic structures Ye, Erika Rajeev Ram. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2015. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 110-117). Three applications of the interaction of light with periodic dielectric structures are investigated. The first application is large-area spectroscopy, for which we use the mid-field diffraction pattern generated by the light source passing through a transmission grating to determine its spectral composition. By utilizing a large grating size, we are able to achieve resolutions of < 4 nm experimental while having an etendue of roughly 0.033 mm2. Furthermore, since we are sampling the mid-field light pattern as opposed to the farfield, the entire spectrometer can fit within a 10 mm by 10 mm by 5 mm volume. The second application are barcodes based on the wavelength-dependent back-scattering off of a photonic crystal resonant cavity. The challenge is that we want to observe high quality factor resonant peaks while reducing the size of the crystal to less than 10 microns. So far the highest quality factor observed was about 800. The third application is a Fano silicon photonic crystal modulator waveguide device. The resonant cavity of the modulator is a 1D photonic crystal cavity. If we excite the fundamental and first excited mode of the waveguide, we obtain a Fano resonance that can potentially increase modulation depth and efficiency. We investigated how to improve the modulator architecture to reliably design resonators with sharp Fano resonance peaks. Those these applications are still in their early stages, the are promising for furthering each technology. by Erika Ye. M. Eng. 2017-09-15T15:27:31Z 2017-09-15T15:27:31Z 2015 2015 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111287 1002854274 eng MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 126 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Ye, Erika Periodic subwavelength photonic structures |
| title | Periodic subwavelength photonic structures |
| title_full | Periodic subwavelength photonic structures |
| title_fullStr | Periodic subwavelength photonic structures |
| title_full_unstemmed | Periodic subwavelength photonic structures |
| title_short | Periodic subwavelength photonic structures |
| title_sort | periodic subwavelength photonic structures |
| topic | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111287 |
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