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Q: Quantenoptik und Photonik

Q 35: Poster Photonische Kristalle

Q 35.4: Poster

Tuesday, March 14, 2006, 16:30–18:30, Labsaal

Electrooptically Tunable Photonic Crystals — •Jan Hendrik Wülbern¹, Markus Schmidt¹, Manfred Eich¹, Uwe Hübner², Richard Boucher² und Rudolf Zentel³ — ¹Technische Universität Hamburg Harburg, Materialien der Elektrotechnik und Optik, Eissendorferstraße 38, 21073 Hamburg — ²Institut füt Physikalische Hochtechnologie Jena, A. Einstein Str. 9, 07745 Jena — ³Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Mainz, Duesbergweg 10 - 14, 55099 Mainz

We report on electrooptical modulation in a photonic crystal slab waveguide resonator which contains a nanostructured second-order-nonlinear optical polymer. The electrooptical susceptibility in the core was induced by high electric-field poling. A square lattice of holes carrying a line-defect was transferred into the slab by electron-beam-lithography and reactive-ion-etching. Applying an external electric modulation voltage to electrodes leads to a linear electrooptical shift of the resonance spectrum based on the electronic displacement polarization in a noncentrosymmetric medium (Pockels-effect). This effect is therefore inherently faster than other electrooptic modulation effects in nanophotonics.