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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| author | Elise Bailly Jean-Paul Hugonin Benjamin Vest Jean-Jacques Greffet |
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| description | 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 theoretically the field correlation function of the photoluminescence. The presence of strong coupling and the presence of delocalized plasmonic modes have been considered as possible candidates to explain the origin of the spatial coherence. Here, we use a general coherence-absorption relation recently derived to address this question. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6aa4be66a2fe4f86967092c3259b53022024-04-12T17:12:55ZengAmerican Physical SocietyPhysical Review Research2643-15642021-08-0133L03204010.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.L032040Spatial coherence of light emitted by thermalized ensembles of emitters coupled to surface wavesElise BaillyJean-Paul HugoninBenjamin VestJean-Jacques GreffetIt 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 theoretically the field correlation function of the photoluminescence. The presence of strong coupling and the presence of delocalized plasmonic modes have been considered as possible candidates to explain the origin of the spatial coherence. Here, we use a general coherence-absorption relation recently derived to address this question.http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.L032040 |
| spellingShingle | Elise Bailly Jean-Paul Hugonin Benjamin Vest Jean-Jacques Greffet Spatial coherence of light emitted by thermalized ensembles of emitters coupled to surface waves Physical Review Research |
| title | Spatial coherence of light emitted by thermalized ensembles of emitters coupled to surface waves |
| title_full | Spatial coherence of light emitted by thermalized ensembles of emitters coupled to surface waves |
| title_fullStr | Spatial coherence of light emitted by thermalized ensembles of emitters coupled to surface waves |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spatial coherence of light emitted by thermalized ensembles of emitters coupled to surface waves |
| title_short | Spatial coherence of light emitted by thermalized ensembles of emitters coupled to surface waves |
| title_sort | spatial coherence of light emitted by thermalized ensembles of emitters coupled to surface waves |
| url | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.L032040 |
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