Purcell-enhanced spontaneous emission of colloidal PbS quantum dots in slow-light silicon photonic crystal waveguides at the near-infrared

Author

McMillan, James F. ; Yu, Mingbin ; Koh, Weon-Kyu ; Murray, Christopher B. ; Kwong, Dim-Lee ; Wong, Chee Wei

Author_Institution

Opt. Nanostruct. Lab., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We present Purcell-enhanced spontaneous emission of colloidal near-infrared quantum dots in silicon photonic crystal waveguides. The lead sulfide quantum dots demonstrated slow-light enhancement from the large local density of states at the band edge.

Keywords

II-VI semiconductors; colloidal crystals; elemental semiconductors; lead compounds; nanophotonics; nanostructured materials; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; semiconductor quantum dots; silicon; slow light; spontaneous emission; PbS; Purcell-enhanced spontaneous emission; Si; band edge; colloidal near-infrared quantum dots; lead sulfide nanocrystal quantum dots; local density-of-states; slow-light silicon photonic crystal waveguides; Optical scattering; Optical waveguides; Photoluminescence; Photonic crystals; Quantum dot lasers; Quantum dots; Quantum mechanics; Silicon; Spontaneous emission; Stimulated emission; (130.5296) Photonic crystal waveguides; (250.5230) Photoluminescence;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5225494