Tuning the spontaneous light emission in phoxonic cavities

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2567-2574

  Almpanis, Evangelos ^a   Papanikolaou, Nikolaos ^a   Gantzounis, Georgios ^b   Stefanou, Nikolaos ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICS;

ACOUSTO-OPTIC INTERACTION; ACTIVE CENTER; DYNAMIC MODULATION; ELASTIC ENERGY; LOCALIZED MODES;

LIGHT EMISSION;

EID: 84866357905     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.29.002567     Document Type: Article

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