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Fabrication And Characterization Of Photonic Crystal Slow Light Waveguides And Cavities
Published on: November 30, 2012
Dynamics of spontaneous emission from SiN with two-dimensional photonic crystals
Xingsheng Xu1, Toshiki Yamada, Rieko Ueda
1Kobe Advanced Research Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 588-2 Iwaoka, Nishi-Ku, Kobe 651-2492, Japan. xsxu@red.semi.ac.cn
Abstract:
We investigated the dynamics of spontaneous emission from a photonic crystal etched into a SiN slab. After fitting the decay curves of the emission to double exponential functions, we divided the dynamic process of the spontaneous emission into a fast process and a slow process. It was observed that the presence of the photonic crystal increased the proportion of the fast decay component, and consequently, the emission rate and time-integrated emission intensity were also enhanced. These enhancements were a result of the coupling of the guide modes to the leaky modes of the photonic crystal slab waveguide.
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