Observation of inhibited spontaneous emission in a periodic dielectric structure
Abstract
Inhibition of the radiative decay of dye molecules embedded in an ordered aqueous suspension of polystyrene spheres has been measured using picosecond pump-probe techniques. The inhibition is interpreted in terms of excluded vacuum modes and compared with results based on the Wigner-Weisskopf formalism and a three-dimensional scattering model for the fcc colloidal structures.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- October 1990
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.1877
- Bibcode:
- 1990PhRvL..65.1877M
- Keywords:
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- 42.50.Wm;
- 12.20.Fv;
- 42.50.Kb;
- 78.90.+t;
- Experimental tests;
- Other topics in optical properties condensed matter spectroscopy and other interactions of particles and radiation with condensed matter