Spatial coherence of light emitted by thermalized ensembles of emitters coupled to surface waves

It has been discovered experimentally that light emitted by layers of photoexcited dye molecules or quantum dots deposited on metallic thin films is spatially coherent. Identifying the physical origin of this spatial coherence is a difficult task in the absence of a systematic procedure to model the...

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Main Authors: Elise Bailly, Jean-Paul Hugonin, Benjamin Vest, Jean-Jacques Greffet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2021-08-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.L032040