Title :
Simultaneous enhancement of decay rate and light extraction from active hyperbolic metamaterial
Author :
Galfsky, Tal ; Krishnamoorthy, Harish N. S. ; Newman, Ward D. ; Narimanov, Evgenii ; Jacob, Zubin ; Menon, Vinod M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., City Coll. of the City Univ. of New York, New York, NY, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate simultaneous enhancement in spontaneous emission rate and light extraction from hyperbolic metamaterials embedded with quantum dots using a high contrast grating. Enhancements of twenty-fold in extraction and thirteen-fold in emission rate are observed.
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; nanophotonics; optical metamaterials; quantum dots; spontaneous emission; active hyperbolic metamaterial; decay rate; high contrast grating; light extraction; quantum dots; simultaneous enhancement; spontaneous emission rate; Glass; Gratings; Hidden Markov models; High K dielectric materials; Metamaterials; Photonics; Physics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
