Surface-passivated high-Q GaAs photonic crystal nanocavity with quantum dots

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02377v2
• Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 10:41:45 GMT
• Title: Surface-passivated high-Q GaAs photonic crystal nanocavity with quantum dots
• Authors: Kazuhiro Kuruma, Yasutomo Ota, Masahiro Kakuda, Satoshi Iwamoto, Yasuhiko Arakawa
• Abstract summary: Photonic crystal (PhC) nanocavities with high quality (Q) factors have attracted much attention because of their strong spatial and temporal light confinement capability. Here, we demonstrate a significant improvement of Q factors up to 160,000 in GaAs active PhC nanocavities using a sulfur-based surface passivation technique.
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• Abstract: Photonic crystal (PhC) nanocavities with high quality (Q) factors have attracted much attention because of their strong spatial and temporal light confinement capability. The resulting enhanced light-matter interactions are beneficial for diverse photonic applications, ranging from on-chip optical communications to sensing. However, currently achievable Q factors for active PhC nanocavities, which embed active emitters inside, are much lower than those of the passive structures because of large optical loss, presumably originating from light scattering by structural imperfections and/or optical absorptions. Here, we demonstrate a significant improvement of Q factors up to ~160,000 in GaAs active PhC nanocavities using a sulfur-based surface passivation technique. This value is the highest ever reported for any active PhC nanocavities with semiconductor quantum dots. The surface-passivated cavities also exhibit reduced variation in both Q factors and cavity resonant wavelengths. We find that the improvement in the cavity performance presumably arises from suppressed light absorption at the surface of the PhC's host material by performing a set of PL measurements in spectral and time domains. With the surface passivation technique, we also demonstrate a strongly-coupled single quantum dot-cavity system based on a PhC nanocavity with a high Q factor of ~100,000. These results will pave the way for advanced quantum dot-based cavity quantum electrodynamics and for GaAs micro/nanophotonic applications containing active emitters.

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