Semiconductor Optoelectronics, Volume. 46, Issue 3, 444(2025)
Defect-Tolerant High-Q Mid-infrared Cavity Based on Valley Photonic Crystals
A mid-infrared cavity is implemented herein on a valley photonic crystal structure with a honeycomb lattice via manipulation of the valley degrees of freedom. The resulting topological waveguide designed considering this structure exhibits remarkable unidirectional transmission characteristics, achieving near-unity forward transmission efficiency within the operating frequency range while effectively suppressing backward scattering. The cavity constructed on the basis of this design achieves a quality factor of 5.59×104 within the target frequency range. When compared to conventional photonic crystal cavities, this mid-infrared cavity exhibits a significantly lower inverse participation ratio that reaches as low as 1.6 and consistently remains below 2 within the target frequency range. This results in significant mode field distribution uniformity. Moreover, the mode distribution of the cavity remains stable even when structural defects are introduced.
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KANG Chen, YU Jinling, CHEN Can, LAI Yunfeng, CHENG Shuying, CHEN Yonghai, LI Yuan. Defect-Tolerant High-Q Mid-infrared Cavity Based on Valley Photonic Crystals[J]. Semiconductor Optoelectronics, 2025, 46(3): 444
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Received: Mar. 4, 2025
Accepted: Sep. 18, 2025
Published Online: Sep. 18, 2025
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