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Light emission from sources located within metallodielectric planar microcavities

H Rigneault1, C Amra, C Begon

  • 1Laboratoire d'Optique des Surfaces et des Couches Minces, Unité Propre de Recherche de l'Enseignement Supérieur Associée au Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique 6080, Microcavities Groupe, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physiques de Marseille, Domaine Universitaire de St Jérôme, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France. herve.rigneault@enspm.u-3mrs.fr

Applied Optics
|March 6, 2008
PubMed
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This study presents a formula for electromagnetic power in microcavities. All-dielectric structures offer better light extraction than metallodielectric ones due to metal absorption.

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