• DocumentCode
    3632609
  • Title

    Limitations to controlling spontaneous emission in microcavities with distributed mirrors

  • Author

    R.J. Ram;D.I. Babic;R.A. York;J.E. Bowers

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
  • fYear
    1994
  • Firstpage
    79
  • Lastpage
    80
  • Abstract
    Limitations introduced by diffraction penetration depth and mirror pass band on controlling spontaneous emission in planar and post microcavities are investigated. Analytic expressions for the emission rate and coupling factor are presented and verified by exact numerical calculations as well as millimeter wave experiments.
  • Keywords
    "Spontaneous emission","Microcavities","Mirrors","Distributed Bragg reflectors","Gallium arsenide","Diffraction","Reflectivity","Optical resonators","Testing","Millimeter wave technology"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Semiconductor Laser Conference, 1994., 14th IEEE International
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-1754-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISLC.1994.519143
  • Filename
    519143