Accurate calculation of the local density of optical states in inverse-opal photonic crystals

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 987-997

  Nikolaev, Ivan S ^a   Vos, Willem L ^a,b   Koenderink, A Femius ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; SILICATE MINERALS;

ACCURATE CALCULATIONS; FREQUENCY RESOLUTIONS; LOCAL DENSITY OF OPTICAL STATE (LDOS); PLANE WAVE EXPANSION METHOD; POSITION AND ORIENTATIONS; SILICON INVERSE OPALS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION DYNAMICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 67649246151     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.26.000987     Document Type: Article

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