Numerical analysis of efficient light extraction with an elliptical solid immersion lens

Optics Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 4639-4642

  Schell, Andreas W ^a   Neumer, Tanja ^a   Benson, Oliver ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

DESIGN CONCEPT; EMISSION DIRECTIONALITY; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; LIGHT COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; LIGHT EXTRACTION; NON-SPHERICAL; NUMERICAL APERTURE; SOLID IMMERSION LENS;

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

EID: 84906092485     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.39.004639     Document Type: Article

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