Lifetime distribution of spontaneous emission from emitter(s) in three-dimensional woodpile photonic crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 11623-11630

  Liu, Jing Feng ^a,c   Jiang, Hao Xiang ^a   Gan, Zong Song ^b   Jia, Bao Hua ^b   Jin, Chong Jun ^a   Wang, Xue Hua ^a   Gu, Min ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

A-PLANE; GAP EDGE; HIGH ANISOTROPY; LIFE-TIME DISTRIBUTION; LOCAL DENSITY OF STATE; LOW REFRACTIVE INDEX; MINIMUM VALUE; PHOTONICS CRYSTALS; POLARIZATION ORIENTATION; PSEUDO-GAP; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION LIFETIME; TRANSITION FREQUENCIES; UNIT CELLS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 79958186409     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.011623     Document Type: Article

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