| Autor: |
Rodriguez, Alejandro W., McCauley, Alexander P., Hui, Pui-Chuen, Woolf, David, Iwase, Eiji, Capasso, Federico, Loncar, Marko, Johnson, Steven G. |
| Rok vydání: |
2010 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Optics Express, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2225-2241 (2011) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
Working Paper |
| DOI: |
10.1364/OE.19.002225 |
| Popis: |
We demonstrate that tunable attractive (bonding) and repulsive (anti-bonding) forces can arise in highly asymmetric structures coupled to external radiation, a consequence of the bonding/anti-bonding level repulsion of guided-wave resonances that was first predicted in symmetric systems. Our focus is a geometry consisting of a photonic-crystal (holey) membrane suspended above an unpatterned layered substrate, supporting planar waveguide modes that can couple via the periodic modulation of the holey membrane. Asymmetric geometries have a clear advantage in ease of fabrication and experimental characterization compared to symmetric double-membrane structures. We show that the asymmetry can also lead to unusual behavior in the force magnitudes of a bonding/antibonding pair as the membrane separation changes, including nonmonotonic dependences on the separation. We propose a computational method that obtains the entire force spectrum via a single time-domain simulation, by Fourier-transforming the response to a short pulse and thereby obtaining the frequency-dependent stress tensor. We point out that by operating with two, instead of a single frequency, these evanescent forces can be exploited to tune the spring constant of the membrane without changing its equilibrium separation. |
| Databáze: |
arXiv |
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