Controlling the optical properties of single molecules by optical confinement in a tunable microcavity
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Gutbrod, Raphael; Chizhik, Alexey; Chizhik, Anna; Khoptyar, Dmitry; Bar, Sebastian; Enderlein, Jorg; Meixner, Alfred J.
- Source
- CLEO/Europe - EQEC 2009 - European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the European Quantum Electronics Conference Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on. :1-1 Jun, 2009
- Subject
- Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical control
Microcavities
Optical resonators
Stimulated emission
Fluorescence
Optical coupling
Resonance
Silver
Mirrors
Dielectrics
- Language
Optical microcavities are structures which confine light to a small region in the range of one wavelength. The radiation of a quantum emitter is coupled to cavity resonances which leads to an optical confinement of the broadband fluorescence [Fig. 1a, b]. A practical design for this single-mode microcavity is formed by two silver mirrors enclosing a transparent dielectric medium with single quantum emitters. Steiner et al. have shown that the fluorescence spectra and decay lifetimes of single molecules in this Fabry-Perot type microcavity are strongly dependent on the resonator length [1].