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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages 245-255Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.000245
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When a guided wave is impinging onto a Photonic Crystal ( PC) mirror, a fraction of the light is not reflected back and is radiated into the claddings. We present a theoretical and numerical study of this radiation problem for several three-dimensional mirror geometries which are important for light confinement in micropillars, air-bridge microcavities and two-dimensional PC microcavities. The cause of the radiation is shown to be a mode-profile mismatch. Additionally, design tools for reducing this mismatch by tuning the mirror geometry are derived. These tools are validated by numerical results performed with a three-dimensional Fourier modal method. Several engineered mirror geometries which lower the radiation loss by several orders of magnitude are designed. (C) 2005 Optical Society of America.
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