Summary form only given. Spontaneous emission represents a loss mechanism that fundamentally limits the performance of semiconductor lasers. The rate of spontaneous emission may, however, be controlled by a new class of periodic dielectric structures known as photonic crystals. Although a three-dimensional periodic structure may rigorously forbid spontaneous emission within a frequency interval, a simpler-to-fabricate two-dimensional (2-D) periodic structure may also introduce a large suppression of spontaneous emission.


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    Title :

    Suppression of spontaneous emission for two-dimensional GaAs photonic crystal microcavities


    Contributors:
    Sondergaard, T. (author) / Broeng, J. (author) / Bjarklev, A. (author)


    Publication date :

    1999-01-01


    Size :

    308083 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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