Spontaneous emission in two-dimensional photonic crystal microcavities

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 450-457

  Søndergaard, Thomas ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL MICROCAVITIES;

CRYSTALS; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; FERMI LEVEL; PHOTONS;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 0033907034     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.831020     Document Type: Article

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