title: Dynamics of spontaneous emission from SiN with two-dimensional photonic crystals.
abstract: We investigated the dynamics of spontaneous emission from a photonic crystal etched into a SiN slab. After fitting the decay curves of the emission to double exponential functions, we divided the dynamic process of the spontaneous emission into a fast process and a slow process. It was observed that the presence of the photonic crystal increased the proportion of the fast decay component, and consequently, the emission rate and time-integrated emission intensity were also enhanced. These enhancements were a result of the coupling of the guide modes to the leaky modes of the photonic crystal slab waveguide.
authors.affiliation: Kobe Advanced Research Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 588-2 Iwaoka, Nishi-Ku, Kobe 651-2492, Japan. xsxu@red.semi.ac.cn
authors.forename: Xingsheng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Toshiki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Rieko
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ueda
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Otomo