Title :
Cavity-enhanced spontaneous emission and saturable absorption of colloidal quantum dots
Author :
Gupta, Swastik ; Waks, Edo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate spontaneous emission enhancement (by an average factor of 4.6) and saturable absorption of cadmium selenide colloidal quantum dots coupled to a nanobeam photonic crystal cavity, at room temperature.
Keywords :
II-VI semiconductors; cadmium compounds; nanophotonics; optical saturable absorption; photonic crystals; semiconductor quantum dots; spontaneous emission; wide band gap semiconductors; CdSe; cadmium selenide colloidal quantum dots; cavity-enhanced spontaneous emission; colloidal quantum dots; nanobeam photonic crystal cavity; room temperature; saturable absorption; Absorption; Cavity resonators; Optical surface waves; Photoluminescence; Photonic crystals; Quantum dots; Spontaneous emission;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
