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Aurelien David1, Henri Benisty, Claude Weisbuch
1Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique, Campus Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France. aurelien.david@polytechnique.org
Abstract:
We investigate the physics of spontaneous emission in a photonic crystal (PhC) made of GaN rods with embedded InGaN quantum wells, formed on a thick GaN layer. Although the PhC lies on a higher-index medium, we evidence the existence of unexpected quasi-guided Bloch modes which are strongly localized in the PhC region and possess a long lifetime. These modes determine the behavior of spontaneous emission such as the emission diagram and Purcell effect, as would happen in the usual case of emission in a PhC membrane.
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