Fabrication and Investigation of Spectral Properties of a Dielectric Slab Waveguide Photonic Crystal Based Fano-Filter

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the fabrication of a dielectric photonic crystal (PhC)-based Fano-filter device, as well as a numerical investigation of its spectral characteristics. The process parameters affecting the structural and physical properties of the fabricated device are discussed in detail, along with their influence on the spectral properties of the filter. The considered experimental problem is a three-layered PhC structure, fabricated using focused ion-beam (FIB) technology, designed to operate in the near-infrared (NIR) range. The studied parameters include the shape of PhC elements, depth of the structures, cladding layer thicknesses, and the refractive index of the material. Numerical design and simulations are performed using an open-source python-based Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation tool. The proposed optical filter device operates based on the principle of guided-mode resonance, and achieved a maximum quality factor value in the range of 800.