Strong enhancement of spontaneous emission in hydrogenated amorphous silicon nitride coupled-microcavity structures

Author

Bayindir, Mehmet ; Tanriseven, S. ; Aydinli, A. ; Ozbay, Ekmel

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Bilkent Univ., Ankara, Turkey

fYear

2001

fDate

11-11 May 2001

Firstpage

176

Lastpage

177

Abstract

Summary form only given. Recently, we have reported a new type of propagation mechanism in which photons move along the localized coupled-cavity modes. Moreover, it was observed that the group velocity tends towards to zero and photon lifetime increases drastically at the coupled-cavity band edges. In the work, we experimentally demonstrate the modification of spontaneous emission from the hydrogenated amorphous silicon nitride layers in a coupled-microcavity (CMC) structure.

Keywords

amorphous state; cavity resonators; hydrogen; micro-optics; optical materials; optical multilayers; photoluminescence; plasma CVD; silicon compounds; spontaneous emission; Si/sub 3/N/sub 4/; Si/sub 3/N/sub 4/ coupled-microcavity structures; Si/sub 3/N/sub 4/-SiO/sub 2/; SiO/sub 2/; a-Si/sub 3/N/sub 4/:H; coupled-cavity band edges; coupled-microcavity structure; coupled-microcavity structures; group velocity; localized coupled-cavity modes; photoluminescence; photon lifetime; propagation mechanism; spontaneous emission; Amorphous silicon; Colossal magnetoresistance; Laser transitions; Magnetic materials; Optical films; Optical pulses; Spontaneous emission; Temperature distribution; Temperature sensors; Transistors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-662-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2001.947675

Filename

947675