Analytical and FDTD design of hybrid Fabry-Perot plano-concave microcavity for hexagonal boron nitride

TL;DR

This paper presents an analytical and FDTD design of a hybrid Fabry-Perot microcavity tailored for hexagonal boron nitride emitters, achieving a Purcell enhancement of 6 to improve single-photon emission efficiency.

Contribution

It introduces a combined analytical and FDTD approach to optimize hybrid microcavity parameters for enhanced emission from 2D hBN color centers.

Findings

Achieved a Purcell factor of 6 for the microcavity.

Optimized geometrical parameters for experimental feasibility.

Limited the numerical aperture to improve light extraction.

Abstract

The emission of light of an efficient single-photon emitter (SPE) should have a high-count rate into a well-defined spatio-temporal mode along with an accessible numerical aperture (NA) to increase the light extraction efficiency that is required for effective coupling into optical waveguides. Based on a previously developed experimental approach to fabricate hybrid Fabry-Perot microcavities (Further information is available [F. Ortiz-Huerta et al, Opt.Express 26, 33245 (2018)]), we managed to find analytical and finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) values for the, experimentally achievable, geometrical parameters of a hybrid plano-concave microcavity that enhances the spontaneous emission (i.e. Purcell enhancement) of color centers in two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) while simultaneously limiting the NA of the emitter. Paraxial approximation and a transfer matrix model are used to find the spotsize of the fundamental Gaussian mode and the resonant modes of our microcavity, respectively. A Purcell enhancement of 6 is found for a SPE (i.e. in-plane dipole) hosted by a 2D hBN layer inside the hybrid plano-concave microcavity.