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Tuning of photonic crystal cavities by controlled removal of locally infiltrated water

Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 173112 (2009); doi:10.1063/1.3247894

Published 29 October 2009

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Francesca Intonti,1,2 Silvia Vignolini,3 Francesco Riboli,3 Margherita Zani,3 Diederik S. Wiersma,3 Laurent Balet,4 Lianhe H. Li,4 Marco Francardi,5 Annamaria Gerardino,5 Andrea Fiore,6 and Massimo Gurioli1,2
1CNISM, Unità di Ricerca di Firenze, Via Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
2Department of Physics and European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy, University of Florence, Via Nello Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
3European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy and INFM-BEC, Via Nello Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
4Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Station 3, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
5Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology, CNR, via del Cineto Romano 42, 00156 Roma, Italy
6COBRA Research Institute, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
We present a spectral tuning mechanism of photonic crystal microcavities based on microfluidics. The microinfiltration with water of one or few cavity holes and its subsequent controlled evaporation allow us to tune the cavity resonances in a spectral range larger than 20 nm, with subnanometer accuracy, and we also observe that the addition of water in the microcavity region improves its quality factor Q. ©2009 American Institute of Physics
History: Received 11 August 2009; accepted 20 September 2009; published 29 October 2009
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  • 42.79.-e
    Optical elements, devices, and systems
  • 85.85.+j
    Micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) and devices
  • YEAR: 2009

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