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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

Massimo Gurioli, Laurent Balet

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

Massimo Gurioli, Laurent Balet

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

Massimo Gurioli, Laurent Balet, 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

Massimo Gurioli, Laurent Balet

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

Massimo Gurioli, Laurent Balet

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

Massimo Gurioli, Laurent Balet

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

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

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press2011

Nanophotonic technologies for single-photon devices

Laurent Balet, Francesco Marsili, Alessandro Gaggero

The progress in nanofabrication has made possible the realization of optic nanodevices able to handle single photons and to exploit the quantum nature of single-photon states. In particular, quantum cryptography (or more precisely quantum key distribution, ...

2010

Magnetic Imaging in Photonic Crystal Microcavities

Massimo Gurioli, Laurent Balet

We demonstrate the nonresonant magnetic interaction at optical frequencies between a photonic crystal microcavity and a metallized near-field microscopy probe. This interaction can be used to map and control the magnetic component of the microcavity modes. ...

2010

Mode hybridization in photonic crystal molecules

Massimo Gurioli, Laurent Balet

A complete control of the coupling between the modes of two photonic crystal microcavities is obtained by using a combination of several local tuning techniques. By a local and controlled modification of one cavity we are able to bring into resonance modes ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2010

Nanofluidic control of coupled photonic crystal resonators

Massimo Gurioli, Laurent Balet

A fine control of a photonic molecule is obtained by nanofluidic techniques. The coupling condition between the modes of two photonic crystal nanocavities is modified by spectrally tuning each single resonator. Clear mode anticrossing and transition from l ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2010

Novel Picosecond Time-Resolved Cathodoluminescence to Probe Exciton Recombination Dynamics in GaN and GaN Based Heterostructures

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

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press2010

Exciton recombination dynamics in a-plane (Al,Ga)N/GaN quantum wells probed by picosecond photo and cathodoluminescence

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

We present a combined low-temperature time-resolved cathodoluminescence and photoluminescence study of exciton recombination mechanisms in a 3.8 nm thick a-plane (Al,Ga)N/GaN quantum well (QW). We observe the luminescence from QW excitons and from excitons ...

American Institute of Physics2010

Controlling the charge environment of single quantum dots in a photonic-crystal cavity

Blandine Alloing, Carl Zinoni, Laurent Balet

We demonstrate that the presence of charges around a semiconductor quantum dot (QD) strongly affects its optical properties and produces nonresonant coupling to the modes of a microcavity. We show that, besides (multi)exciton lines, a QD generates a spectr ...

2009

Local tuning of photonic crystal nanocavity modes by laser-assisted oxidation

Laurent Balet, Sanjeev Kumar

The authors demonstrate a sample method to achieve local tuning of optical modes in GaAs photonic crystal nanocavities by continuous wave laser-assisted oxidation in air atmosphere. By irradiation with a focused laser beam at power levels of a few tells of ...

American Institute of Physics2009

Investigation into the coupling of quantum dots to photonic crystal nanocavities at telecommunication wavelengths

Laurent Balet

Recently, the emission of single photons with emission wavelength in the 1.3 µm telecommunication window was demonstrated for InAs quantum dots. This makes them strong candidates for applications such as quantum cryptography, and in a longer term, quantum ...

EPFL2009

Polarization-sensitive near-field investigation of photonic crystal microcavities

Massimo Gurioli, Laurent Balet

We report on polarization sensitive imaging of two-dimensional photonic crystal microcavity modes. By using a near-field scanning optical microscope with a polarization sensitive setup, it is possible to selectively map, with a resolution beyond the diffra ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2009