The technology is mostly based on the research from Professor Weidong Zhou's group at the University of Texas at Arlington, in collaborations with his collaborators, and team members. https://zhoulab.uta.edu
Major technologies can be found in the following publications:
- DBR-free photonic crystal membrane reflector vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
H. Yang, D. Zhao, S. Chuwongin, J.-H. Seo, W. Yang, Y. Shuai, J. Berggren, M. Hammar, Z. Ma and W. Zhou, “Transfer printing stacked nanomembrane lasers on silicon”, Nature Photonics 6, 615-620 (2012).
- Hybrid photonic crystal surface emitting lasers (hPCSEL)
D. Zhao, S. Liu, H. Yang, Z. Ma, C. Reuterskiöld-Hedlund, M. Hammar, and W. Zhou, “Printed Large-Area Single-Mode Photonic Crystal Bandedge Surface-Emitting Lasers on Silicon, Scientific Reports 6, 18860 (2016).
- High speed photonic crystal slab spatial light modulators (PCS SLM)
Y. Shuai, D. Zhao, C. Stambaugh, N. Zimmerman, J. Lawall, and W. Zhou, “Coupled Bi-layer Photonic Crystal Slab Electro-optic Spatial Light Modulators”, IEEE Photon. J. 9, 7101411 (2017).
- Material absorption control with photonic crystal cavities
Y. Liu, A. Chadha, D. Zhao, J. R.Piper, Y. Jia, Y. Shuai, L. Menon, H. Yang, Z. Ma, S. Fan, F. Xia, and W. Zhou, “Approaching total absorption at near infrared in a large area monolayer graphene by critical coupling”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 181105 (2014).
- Photonic crystal metasurface optoelectronics
