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Optical fiber coupling to planar photonic crystal microcavities

Paul E. Barclay, Kartik Srinivasan, Oskar Painter

physics.opticsarXiv:physics/0405064

Abstract

A technique is demonstrated which efficiently transfers light between a tapered standard single-mode optical fiber and a resonant mode of a high-Q photonic crystal cavity with mode volume less than a cubic wavelength in size. Cavity mode quality factors of 4.7 x 104 are measured, and a total fiber-to-cavity coupling efficiency of 44% is demonstrated.

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