Design, fabrication and optical characterization of one-dimensional two- and multi-component photonic crystals based on silicon

Abstract

The objective of this thesis was the design, fabrication and optical investigation of a novel type of one-dimensional photonic crystal structures for application in integrated Silicon microphotonics. This thesis reports on new and unique optical properties of the developed ultra-wide pass-band filters based on multi-component photonic crystal model and thermo-, electro-tunable filters based on micro-cavity photonic crystal resonator model.