Journal
NANO LETTERS
Volume 11, Issue 10, Pages 4218-4221Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl202173t
Keywords
Chalcogenide glasses; direct laser writing; nanofabrication; nonlinear nanowires
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- ARC Centre of Excellence CUDOS (Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems)
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Nanowires have been widely studied and have gained a lot of interest in the past decade. Because of their high refractive index and high nonlinearity, chalcogenide glasses (ChGs) are a good candidate for the fabrication of photonic nanowires as such, nanowaveguides provide the maximal confinement of light, enabling large enhancement of nonlinear interactions and group-velocity dispersion engineering. Here we report on the generation of lambda/12 (similar to 68 nm) nanowires based on the theoretical and experimental study of the influence of the laser repetition rate on the direct laser fabrication in ChGs (lambda = 800 nm). Through a numerical model of cumulative heating, the optimum conditions for high-resolution fabrication in As(2)S(3) are found. Nanowires with dimensions down to similar to lambda/12 are for the first time successfully fabricated in ChGs. We show that the generated nanowires can be stacked to form a three-dimensional woodpile photonic crystal with a pronounced stop gap.
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