Broadband enhancement of light emission in silicon slot waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 7479-7490

  Jun, Young Chul ^a   Briggs, Ryan M ^b   Atwater, Harry A ^b   Brongersma, Mark L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT SOURCES;

ELECTRICAL DIPOLES; ENHANCED LUMINESCENCE; HIGH Q OPTICAL RESONATOR; LIGHT EMISSION PROPERTIES; PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS; REALISTIC CONDITIONS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION ENHANCEMENT; WAVEGUIDE COUPLING;

WAVEGUIDES;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; LIGHTING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILICON;

EID: 66649121164     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.007479     Document Type: Article

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