Recently, photonic crystals (PCs) have gained interest due to their ability to influence the propagation of light [1]. This paper describes a simple and novel approach for the fabrication of micron and nanometer scale photonic crystal based circuitry with an arbitrary degree of control. Laser ablation using a femtosecond Ti:Sapphire [2] laser is used to form a template from which the photonic crystal device is cast
REFERENCES
1.
Yablonovitch
, E.
(1987
) Inhibited spontaneous emission in solid-state physics and electronics
, Physical Review Letters
58
, 2059
–2062
.2.
Korte
, F.
, Adams
, S.
, Egbert
, A.
, Fallnich
, C.
, Ostendorf
, A.
, Nolte
, S.
, Will
, M.
, Ruske
, J.-P.
, Chichkov
, B. N.
& Tunnermann
, A.
(2000
) Sub-diffraction limited structuring of solid targets with femotosecond laser pulses
, Optics Express
7
, 41
–49
.3.
Noda
, S.
, Yamamoto
, N.
, Imada
, M.
, Kobayashi
, H.
& Okano
, M.
(1999
) Alignment and stacking of semiconductor photonic bandgaps by wafer-fusion
, Journal of Lightwave Technology
17
, 1948
–1955
.4.
Campbell
, M.
, Sharp
, D. N.
, Harrison
, M. T.
, Denning
, R. G.
& Turberfield
, A. J.
(2000
) Fabrication of photonic crystals for the visible spectrum by holographic lithography
, Letters to Nature
404
, 53
–56
.5.
Velikov
, K. P.
, Moroz
, A.
& van Blaaderen
, A.
(2002
) Photonic crystals of core-shell colloidal particles
, Applied Physics Letters
78
, 1754
–1756
.6.
Baudach
, S.
, Bonse
, J.
& Kautek
, W.
(1999
) Ablation experiments on polyimide with femotosecond laser pulses
, Applied Physics A
69
,s395
–s398
.7.
Zhu
, X.
, Naumov
, A. Yu.
, Villeneuve
, D. M.
& Corkum
, P. B.
(1999
) Influence of laser parameters and material properties on micro drilling with femtosecond laser pulses
, Applied Physics A
69
, s367
–s371
.8.
Fan
, S.
, Villenuve
, P. R.
& Joannopoulos
, J. D.
(1995
) Theoretical investigation of fabrication-related disorder on the properties of photonic crystals
, Journal of Applied Physics
78
, 1415
–1418
.9.
Bauerle
, D.
(1996
) Laser Processing and Chemistry
, Springer Verlag
, 2nd ed.
This content is only available via PDF.
© 2004 Laser Institute of America.
2004
Laser Institute of America
You do not currently have access to this content.