“…Thanks to the symmetry of the unit cell, the two orthogonal X directions are equivalent and two of the lowest energy modes with the lowest thresholds, of course, retain the same symmetry. The symmetry between two orthogonal X-directions can be broken, for instance, due to known difference between regrowth rates on two 110 crystalline directions terminated with either group III or group V atoms [10]. Figure 4 plots calculated band structure of the photonic crystal with modified shape of the air pocket (right triangle with one of the legs of shorter length) in two orthogonal X-directions.…”