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Local nanofluidic light sources in silicon photonic crystal microcavities

Silvia Vignolini1,*, Francesco Riboli1, Francesca Intonti2,1, Michele Belotti3,4, Massimo Gurioli1, Yong Chen4,5, Marcello Colocci1, Lucio Claudio Andreani3, and Diederik S. Wiersma1

  • 1European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS) and INFM-BEC, Via N. Carrara, 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino Firenze, Italy
  • 2CNISM, Unità di Ricerca di Firenze, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
  • 3Dipartimento di Fisica “A. Volta” and UdR CNISM, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Via Bassi 6, I-27100 Pavia, Italy
  • 4Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, LPN-CNRS, Route de Nozay, F-91460 Marcoussis, France
  • 5Département de Chimie, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 Rue Lhomond, F-75231 Paris Cedex 05, France

  • *vignolini@lens.unifi.it
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Phys. Rev. E 78, 045603(R) – Published 30 October, 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.78.045603

Abstract

We report on the realization of a rewritable and local source inside a Si-based photonic crystal microcavity by infiltrating a solution of colloidal PbS quantum dots inside a single pore of the structure. We show that the resulting spontaneous emission from the source is both spatially and spectrally redistributed due to the mode structure of the photonic crystal cavity. The coupling of the quantum dot emission to the cavity mode is analyzed by mapping the luminescence signal of the infiltrated solution with a scanning near-field optical microscope at room temperature. Spectral characterization and the mode profile are in good agreement with a three-dimensional numerical calculation of the system.

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Phys. Rev. E 78, 045603(R)– Published 30 October, 2008
  • Received 28 July 2008

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