Smallest possible electromagnetic mode volume in a dielectric cavity

R. Coccioli; M. Boroditsky; K. W. Kim; Y. Rahmat-Samii; E. Yablonovitch

doi:10.1049/ip-opt:19982468

Smallest possible electromagnetic mode volume in a dielectric cavity

R. Coccioli, M. Boroditsky, K. W. Kim, Y. Rahmat-Samii, E. Yablonovitch

University of California at Los Angeles

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Abstract

In photonic crystals, electromagnetic waves can be confined in all three dimensions leading to very small mode volumes. A computational search has been made for the smallest electromagnetic mode volume which occurs in two-dimensional, dielectric photonic crystals slabs. The smallest mode volume found was V = 2(A/2/;)3, where n is the refractive index. This small mode volume can lead to significant enhancement of spontaneous emission rates in semiconductor nano-cavities due to the Purcell effect.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	391-396
Number of pages	6
Journal	IEE Proceedings: Optoelectronics
Volume	145
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1049/ip-opt:19982468
State	Published - 1998

Keywords

Electromagnetic waves
Mode valions
Photonic crystals. Spontaneous emission
Piircell effect

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