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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages 1769-1777Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.25.001769
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- JSPS KAKENHI [23360033, 15H05428]
- New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15H03993, 15H05428, 23360033] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Photonic crystal nanocavities that simultaneously possess small modal volumes and high quality (Q) factors have opened up novel research areas in photonics during this decade. Here, we present an important key for the increase of Q factors to ranges beyond ten million. A systematic investigation on photon lifetimes of air-bridge-type heterostructure nanocavities fabricated from silicon on insulator (SOI) substrates indicated the importance of cleaning the bottom side (buried oxide side) of the nanaocavites. Repeated thermal oxidation and an oxide removal process applied after the removal of the buried oxide layer underneath the nanocavities realized an experimental Q factor greater than eleven million, which is the highest experimental Q ever recorded. The results provide important information not only for Si PC nanocavities but also for general Si nanophotonic devices and photonic electronic convergence systems. (C) 2017 Optical Society of America
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