A review of fluorescence near interfaces is presented. Recent work that examines the role of
photonic mode density in this process is surveyed and the underlying concepts discussed …

Historically, photonic crystals have been made of inorganic high refractive index materials
coupled to air voids to maximize the dielectric contrast and in turn the light confinement …

Rare-earth elements are of interest in several high-tech and environmental application
areas, the two major ones concerning magnetic and optical devices. In the latter field, one …

We have experimentally determined how the spontaneous emission rate of Eu 3+ ions
depends upon both the distance from, and thickness of, a silver film. We show that as the …

Periodically textured metallic films are discussed as a method of extracting light from thin-
film emissive devices. The proposed scheme involves coupling the emitters to a surface …

Starting from a quantum Maxwell equation for the vector potential operator, we study the
spontaneous emission properties of a two-level atom interacting with the electromagnetic …

Spontaneous light emission is central to a vast range of physical systems and is a founding
pillar for the theory of light–matter interactions. In the presence of complex photonic media …

This paper presents a new real-time electrodynamics approach for determining the rate of
resonance energy transfer (RET) between two molecules in the presence of plasmonic or …

Waveguide modes in two-dimensional (2-D) photonic crystals (PhCs) deeply etched through
monomode slab waveguides, eg, AlGaAs/GaAs, GaAs/AlO_x, or InP/GaInAsP, suffer from …

Scattering of light by a small particle placed near a metal surface is studied via analytical
calculations of the particle extinction cross section. Considering a small spherical particle …