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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 16, Issue 26, Pages 21321-21332Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.021321
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A high-Q photonic crystal (PC) microcavity for TM-like modes, which can be applied to quantum cascade lasers (QCLs), was successfully designed in an air-hole based PC slab with semiconductor cladding layers. In spite of no photonic badgaps for TM-like modes in air-hole based PC slabs, cavity Q reached up to 2,200 by utilizing a graded square lattice PC structure. This is similar to 18 times higher than those previously reported for PC defect-mode microcavities for QCLs. This large improvement is attributed to a suppression of the coupling between the cavity mode and the leaky modes thanks to the dielectric perturbation in the graded structure. We also predicted a dramatic reduction of the threshold current in the designed cavity down to one-fifteenth of that of a conventional QCL, due to a decreased optical volume. (c) 2008 Optical Society of America
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