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III-nitrides provide a versatile platform for nonlinear photonics. In this work, we explore a new promising configuration – composite waveguides containing GaN and AlN layers with inverted polarity, i.e., having opposite signs of the χ (2) nonlinear coefficient. This configuration allows us to address the limiting problem of the mode overlap...

Strain engineering is a powerful approach in micro and optoelectronics to enhance carrier mobility, tune the bandgap of heterostructures or break lattice symmetry for nonlinear optics. The dielectric stressors and bonding interfaces used for strain engineering in photonics can however limit thermal dissipation and the maximum operation...

III-Nitride semiconductors are promising materials for on-chip integrated photonics. They provide a wide transparency window from the ultraviolet to the infrared that can be exploited for second-order nonlinear conversions. Here we demonstrate a photonics platform based on epitaxial GaN-on-insulator on silicon. The transfer of the epi-material...

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Deep ultra-violet semiconductor lasers have numerous applications for optical storage, biochemistry or optical interconnects. UV-emitting ridge lasers usually embed nitride heterostructures grown on complex buffer layers or expensive substrates – an approach that cannot be extended to nano-photonics and microlasers. We demonstrate here the...

The development of semiconductor lasers in the deep ultra-violet (UV) spectral range is attracting a strong interest, related to their multiple applications for optical storage, biochemistry or optical interconnects. UV-emitting ridge lasers usually embed nitride heterostructures grown on complex buffer layers or expensive substrates – an...

In this work we study the spatial distribution of photon modes confined in a 0D cavity and a 1D W1 on AlN-based photonic crystal membranes by spectrally resolved confocal microscopy in the ultra-violet spectral range. The analysis of the influence of the fabrication-induced disorder of the PC on the photon modes show that the cavity modes are...

The spatial distribution of photon modes confined in a 0D cavity and a 1D W1 waveguide is investigated on AlN-based photonic crystal (PC) membranes by spectrally resolved scanning confocal microscopy in the ultra-violet spectral range. The influence of the fabrication-induced disorder of the PC on the photon modes is analyzed. The cavity modes...

The spatial distribution of photon modes confined in a 0D cavity and a 1D W1 waveguide is investigated on AlN-based photonic crystal (PC) membranes by spectrally resolved scanning confocal microscopy in the ultra-violet spectral range. The influence of the fabrication-induced disorder of the PC on the photon modes is analyzed. The cavity modes...

We compare the quality factor values of the whispery gallery modes of microdisks incorporating GaN quantum dots (QDs) grown on AlN and AlGaN barriers by performing room temperature photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. The PL measurements show a large number of high Q factor (Q) resonant modes on the whole spectrum which allows us to identify...

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We report the observation of high quality (Q) factor whispering gallery modes for GaN/AlN quantum dot based microdisks. Room temperature photoluminescence measurements show a large number of high Q modes on the whole PL spectral range. For the first time we report Q values up to 6000 for nitride based cavities. We attribute this improvement of...

Deep ultra-violet semiconductor lasers have numerous applications for optical storage and biochemistry. Many strategies based on nitride heterostructures and adapted substrates have been investigated to develop efficient active layers in this spectral range, starting with AlGaN quantum wells on AlN substrates and more recently sapphire and SiC...

We demonstrate second harmonic generation in a gallium nitride photonic crystal cavity embedded in a two-dimensional free-standing photonic crystal platform on silicon. The photonic crystal nanocavity is optically pumped with a continuous-wave laser at telecom wavelengths in the transparency window of the nitride material. The harmonic...

An original method to fabricate III-nitride photonic crystal membranes without etching of III-N materials is reported. A photonic crystal pattern is first realized in a silicon substrate. GaN quantum dots embedded in a thin AlN layer are then grown by conformal epitaxy using ammonia-based molecular beam epitaxy on the top of the patterned...

Microlasers covering the UV to blue spectral range are important building blocks for biochemical detection applications. This work presents a series of microdisk lasers realized within the same GaN-on-Si photonic platform scheme, and operating at room temperature under pulsed optical pumping over a broad spectral range extending from 275 nm to...

We demonstrate a two-dimensional free-standing gallium nitride photonic crystal platform operating around 1550 nm and fabricated on a silicon substrate. Width-modulated waveguide cavities are integrated and exhibit loaded quality factors up to 34 000 at 1575 nm. We show the resonance tunability by varying the ratio of air hole radius to...

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We present a spectroscopic study of nanocavities obtained by small modifications of a W1 waveguide in an AlN photonic crystal membrane. The AlN film containing GaN quantum dots is grown on silicon. The photonic crystal structure is defined by e-beam lithography and etched by inductively coupled plasma reactive ion etching, while the membrane is...

Dans le domaine de la nano-photonique, les matériaux semiconducteurs nitrures (GaN, AlN) présentent un intérêt grandissant en raison de leurs spécificités, et de leur complémentarité avec les filières déjà établies. Ces matériaux présentent en effet une plage de transparence large, du moyen infra-rouge à l'ultra-violet ; ils présentent aussi...

Abstract-Biochemical detection applications and on-chip optical interconnects are examples of the useful applications considered for integrated photonic platforms dedicated to the UV and visible spectral range. This achievement requires the realization of efficient and compact microlaser sources that can be coupled to optical waveguides and are...

We present a series of microdisk lasers realized within the same GaN-on-Si photonic platform scheme, and operating at room temperature under pulsed optical pumping over a broad spectral range extending over λ = 275 nm–470 nm. The III-nitride microdisks embed either binary GaN/AlN multiple quantum wells (MQWs) for UV operation, or ternary...

We have developed a nanophotonic platform with microdisks using epitaxial III-nitride materials on silicon. The two-dimensional platform consists of suspended waveguides and mushroom-type microdisks as resonators side-coupled with a bus waveguide. Loaded quality factors up to 80000 have been obtained in the near-infrared spectral range for...

We report the realization and the optical study of nitridephotonic resonators dedicated to the blue and UV spectralrange. Microdisks and photonic crystal (PC) cavities areinvestigated containing GaN/AlN quantum dots (QDs)embedded in an AlN waveguide. The PC cavities are fabricatedthrough the conformal growth of nitrides on a patterned...