Title :
Enhanced spontaneous emission by embedding light emitters inside hyperbolic metamaterials
Author :
Ferrari, Lorenzo ; Lu, Dan ; Lepage, Dominic ; Zhaowei Liu
Author_Institution :
Mater. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Abstract :
The inclusion of an emitter inside a Ag/Si multilayer yields a 3-fold enhancement of the Purcell factor over its outer value. The radiation is outcoupled to the far-field via a triangular and a rectangular grating.
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; elemental semiconductors; optical metamaterials; optical multilayers; semiconductor-metal boundaries; silicon; silver; spontaneous emission; 3-fold enhancement; Ag-Si; Purcell factor; enhanced spontaneous emission; hyperbolic metamaterials; light emitters; rectangular grating; triangular grating; Gratings; Hidden Markov models; Light emitting diodes; Metamaterials; Nonhomogeneous media; Silicon; Spontaneous emission;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
