Coupled nanocavilty arrays

We wil:l discuss ourexperimenta:l and. theoretica:l workoncoup:led, photonlic crystal nlanocavity arrays, and,their applicationls ranlging fromlow-thresho:ld, XhigXh speed. lasers to nlon:linear optical devices. Summary We recently proposed. two-dimenlsionlal cou.p:led. pXhotonlic crystal nlanocavity arrays asaroute toachieve aslow- groupve:locity ofli;ght inl allcrysta:l di;rections (1). Su.ch anlanocavity array isfonrmed. byperiodi;cal:ly ti:ling nlanocavities inl twodimenlsionls inlside aphotonic crysta:l. Bytunilng thedistanlce (i.e., thenlumber ofphotonic crystal periods) betweenr nLeighborinlg cavities, onLe canl turie their couplinLg strenLgth, anLd conLsequenLtly thegroupvelocity of