Title

Direct Laser Writing Of Three-Dimensional Photonic-Crystal Templates For Telecommunications

Abstract

The past decade has witnessed intensive research efforts related to the design and fabrication of photonic crystals1,2. These periodically structured dielectric materials can represent the optical analogue of semiconductor crystals, and provide a novel platform for the realization of integrated photonics. Despite intensive efforts, inexpensive fabrication techniques for large-scale three-dimensional photonic crystals of high enough quality, with photonicbandgaps at near-infrared frequencies, and built-in functional elements for telecommunication applications, have been elusive. Direct laser writing by multiphoton polymerization3 of a photoresist has emerged as a technique for the rapid, cheap and flexible fabrication of nanostructures for photonics. In 1999, so-called layer-by-layer4 or woodpile photonic crystals were fabricated with a fundamental stop band at 3.9 μm wavelength5. In 2002, a corresponding 1.9 μm was achieved6, but the important face-centred-cubic (f.c.c.) symmetry was abandoned. Importantly, fundamental stop bands or photonic bandgaps at telecommunication wavelengths have not been demonstrated. In this letter, we report the fabrication - through direct laser writing - and detailed characterization of high-quality large-scale f.c.c. layer-by-layer structures, with fundamental stop bands ranging from l.3 to 1.7 μm.

Publication Date

1-1-2004

Publication Title

Nature Materials

Volume

3

Issue

7

Number of Pages

444-447

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1155

Socpus ID

3042839181 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/3042839181

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