Surface plasmon-enhanced photoluminescence from a single quantum well

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1577-1579

  Hecker, N E ^a,d   Hopfel R A ^a   Sawaki, N ^b   Maier, T ^c   Strasser, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; GOLD; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; METALLIC FILMS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

SURFACE PLASMONS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 0344210438     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.124759     Document Type: Article

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9. The excitation is weak enough to avoid nonlinear effects.
10. The low sensitivity of the s-polarized luminescence intensity over this angular range was determined in another set of experiments. For these measurements because rotation leads to a slight misalignment, we readjusted the experimental setup and optimized the luminescence intensity. We observed that although the p-polarized luminescence intensity dramatically changes, the s-polarized intensity remained, within statistical error, constant. Furthermore, a comparison was made between the p- and s-polarized data for samples with a gold film. This gratingless, but gold covered, sample does not support SPs and exhibits no variation in the p-polarized luminescence intensity over the angular range measured.