Enhanced spontaneous emission from the inside of a multilayer hyperbolic metamaterial (presentation video)

Autor: Dominic Lepage, Lorenzo Ferrari, Zhaowei Liu, Dylan Lu
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: SPIE Proceedings.
ISSN: 0277-786X
DOI: 10.1117/12.2061536
Popis: We study the spontaneous emission enhancement inside a hyperbolic metamaterial, composed of a periodic stack of silver and silicon layers. After showing that the decay rate outside the multilayer can be spectrally altered via the metallic filling ratio, we embed the source within the individual silicon layers, and predict a 3-fold increase of the Purcell factor with respect to its outer value. Then we include the emitter in a polymethyl-methacrylate (PMMA) layer, and extract the plasmonic modes by means of a triangular and a rectangular grating, obtaining respectively a 10-fold and 6-fold enhancement in the power emitted into the far-field.
Databáze: OpenAIRE