Modification of visible spontaneous emission with silicon nitride photonic crystal nanocavities

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 17231-17240

  Barth, Michael ^a   Kouba, Josef ^b   Stingl, Johannes ^a   Löchel, Bernd ^b   Benson, Oliver ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SILICON NITRIDE; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; WAVELENGTH;

DYE EMISSION; PURCELL ENHANCEMENT; SILICON NITRIDE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL NANOCAVITIES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 37249003978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.017231     Document Type: Article

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