Spontaneous emission of rare earth ions confined in planar multilayer dielectric microcavities

Herve Rigneault; Stephanie Robert; Claude Amra; Frederic Lamarque; Serge Monneret; Bernard Jacquier; Paul Moretti; Anne-Marie Jurdyc; A. Belarouci

doi:10.1117/12.290182

1 October 1997 Spontaneous emission of rare-earth ions confined in planar multilayer dielectric microcavities

Herve Rigneault, Stephanie Robert, Claude Amra, Frederic Lamarque, Serge Monneret, Bernard Jacquier, Paul Moretti, Anne-Marie Jurdyc, A. Belarouci

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Proceedings Volume 3133, Optical Thin Films V: New Developments; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.290182
Event: Optical Science, Engineering and Instrumentation '97, 1997, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

We investigate theoretically and experimentally the optical properties of planar Ta₂O₅/SiO₂ multilayer structures implanted with rare earth ions such as erbium and praseodymium. We demonstrate that the spontaneous emission can be strongly enhanced in a direction normal to the layers if the luminescent ions are located in the spacer of a resonant Fabry-Perot type microcavity. Nevertheless, we show that a large amount of light is emitted into the guided modes of the planar stack reducing the optical confinement which is likely to be reached within this type of dielectric microcavities.

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Herve Rigneault, Stephanie Robert, Claude Amra, Frederic Lamarque, Serge Monneret, Bernard Jacquier, Paul Moretti, Anne-Marie Jurdyc, and A. Belarouci "Spontaneous emission of rare-earth ions confined in planar multilayer dielectric microcavities", Proc. SPIE 3133, Optical Thin Films V: New Developments, (1 October 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.290182

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