[EN] The interaction of light and sound waves at the micro and nanoscale has attracted considerable interest in recent years. The main reason is that this interaction is responsible for a wide variety of intriguing physical ...
Pennec, Y.; Rouhani, B. Djafari; El Boudouti. E. H.; Li, C.; El Hassouani, Y.; Vasseur, J. O.; Papanikolaou, Nikos; Benchabane, Samir; Laude, Vincent; Martínez Abietar, Alejandro José(Optical Society of America: Open Access Journals, 2010-06-21)
[EN] We discuss the simultaneous existence of phononic and photonic band gaps in a periodic array of holes drilled in a Si membrane. We investigate in detail both the centered square lattice and the boron nitride (BN) ...
Laude, Vincent; Beugnot, J.C.; Benchabane, S.; Pennec, Y.; Djafari-Rouhani, B.; Papanikolaou, Nikos; Escalante Fernández, José María; Martínez Abietar, Alejandro José(Optical Society of America, 2011)
[EN] We demonstrate theoretically that photons and acoustic phonons can be simultaneously guided and slowed down in specially designed nanostructures. Phoxonic crystal waveguides presenting simultaneous phononic and photonic ...