Spontaneous emission rates of dipoles in photonic crystal membranes

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1196-1206

  Koenderink, A Femius ^a,e   Kafesaki, Maria ^b,c   Soukoulis, Costas M ^b,c,d   Sandoghdar, Vahid ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CRYSTALS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MEMBRANES; PHOTONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DIPOLE EMITTERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; SEMICONDUCTOR MEMBRANES;

SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

EID: 33745876525     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.001196     Document Type: Article

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