研究了用于光缓存的光子晶体耦合腔光波导的结构对慢光传输特性的影响。详细讨论了微腔间距关于波导禁带、导模带宽、导模传输群速度的具体关系。计算发现随着微腔之间距离的增加导模显著平坦化,群速度急剧减小。当相邻微腔之间距离为7个晶格常数时,获得了小于2×10-4c的超小群速度。通过长度为13.23μm的7×7超胞构成的光子晶体耦合腔光波导,产生的最大光延迟超过了400ps,这比相同长度传统光波导产生光延迟大四个数量级。
The significant effect factor of slow light transmission in photonic crystal coupled resonator optical waveguide has been investigated. The change tendency of guided mode band, group velocity and group delay with the tuning of distance between neighboring cavities have been discussed in detail. The guided mode is flattened clearly and the group velocity decreases sharply with the increasing of cavities distance. When the interval between contiguous cavities is 7 lattice constants of photonic crystal, the ultra small group velocity below 2×10-4c has been obtained. This is roughly two orders of magnitude smaller than that in line defect PC waveguide. The maximal group delay through CROW of 13.23μm with supercell 7×7 exceeds 400ps, which are four orders of magnitude larger than that in traditional waveguide with same length.