Spontaneous emission control in semiconductor microcavities with metallic or Bragg mirrors

Author

Abram, I. ; Robert, I. ; Kuszelewicz, R.

Author_Institution

Lab. de Bagneux, CNET, Bagneux, France

Volume

34

Issue

1

fYear

1998

fDate

1/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

71

Lastpage

76

Abstract

We present a systematic study of the modification of the spontaneous emission of a point dipole in a planar semiconductor microcavity, bounded by different types of mirrors. Numerical evaluations of the spontaneous emission rate indicate that semiconductor cavities bounded by Bragg mirrors display only a weak modification of spontaneous emission, while significant enhancement and inhibition of spontaneous emission should be observed in cavities bounded by metallic mirrors

Keywords

Fabry-Perot resonators; distributed Bragg reflector lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; laser theory; semiconductor lasers; spontaneous emission; Bragg mirrors; metallic mirrors; numerical evaluations; planar semiconductor microcavity; point dipole; semiconductor cavities; semiconductor microcavities; spontaneous emission; spontaneous emission control; spontaneous emission rate; Electromagnetic wave absorption; Laser modes; Laser theory; Microcavities; Mirrors; Nonhomogeneous media; Optical resonators; Semiconductor lasers; Spontaneous emission; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/3.655009

Filename

655009