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Engineering of light confinement in strongly scattering disordered media

Disordered photonic materials can diffuse and localize light through random multiple scattering, offering opportunities to study mesoscopic phenomena, control light-matter interactions, and provide new strategies for photonic applications. Light transport ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Simultaneous near field imaging of electric and magnetic field in photonic crystal nanocavities

Laurent Balet, Massimo Gurioli

The insertion of a metal-coated tip on the surface of a photonic crystal microcavity is used for simultaneous near field imaging of electric and magnetic fields in photonic crystal nanocavities, via the radiative emission of embedded semiconductor quantum ...

2012

Enhanced spontaneous emission from quantum dots in short photonic crystal waveguides

Laurent Balet

We report a study of the quantum dot (QD) emission in short photonic crystal waveguides. We observe that the quantum dot photoluminescence intensity and decay rate are strongly enhanced when the emission energy is in resonance with Fabry-Perot (FP) cavity ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2012

Antibonding ground state in photonic crystal molecules

Laurent Balet, Massimo Gurioli

We employ a far-field analysis of the angular emission pattern to experimentally assess the symmetry of localized modes in coupled photonic-crystal cavities. We demonstrate that the spatial distribution of localized modes in photonic-crystal nanocavities m ...

2012

Mode tuning of photonic crystal nanocavities by photoinduced non-thermal oxidation

Laurent Balet, Massimo Gurioli, Santosh Kumar

A method to achieve photoinduced tuning of PhC nanocavity modes is discussed and implemented. It is based on light induced oxidation in air atmosphere with very low thermal budget which produces a local reduction of the GaAs membrane effective thickness an ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2012

Post-fabrication control of evanescent tunnelling in photonic crystal molecules

Laurent Balet, Massimo Gurioli

The post-fabrication control of evanescent tunnelling in photonic crystal molecules is demonstrated through the combination of selective infiltration and oxidation. By laser non thermal oxidation, we reduce the photonic coupling by more than 30% while by m ...

Amer Inst Physics2012

Ideal homoatomic and heteroatomic photonic crystal molecules

Laurent Balet, Massimo Gurioli

A local tuning of the modes of photonic crystal systems both to blue and to red sides of the resonance is implemented by nano-infiltration/evaporation of water and laser micro-oxidation. This technology is used to completely control coupled photonic nanoca ...

2012

Tuning optical modes in slab photonic crystal by atomic layer deposition and laser-assisted oxidation

Laurent Balet

The authors experimentally investigate the effects of atomic layer deposition (ALD) and laser-assisted oxidation on the optical modes in GaAs L3 photonic crystal air-bridge cavities, using layers of InAs quantum dots as internal light source. Four distinct ...

2011

Young's Type Interference for Probing the Mode Symmetry in Photonic Structures

Laurent Balet, Massimo Gurioli

A revisited realization of the Young's double slit experiment is introduced to directly probe the photonic mode symmetry by photoluminescence experiments. We experimentally measure the far field angular emission pattern of quantum dots embedded in photonic ...

2011

Picosecond Time-Resolved Cathodoluminescence to Probe Exciton Dynamics in α-Plane (Al,Ga)N/GaN Quantum Wells

Nicolas Grandjean, Pierre Michel Corfdir, Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, Jean-Daniel Ganière, Laurent Balet, Samuel Sonderegger

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press2011