Steiner, Mathias: Control of molecular Spontaneous Emission in an optical lambda/2-microresonator. 2006
Inhalt
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A New Microresonator Design for Single Molecule Detection
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Preparation and Characterization of the Resonator Mirrors
- 2.3 Preparation and Characterization of the Microresonator
- 2.4 Single Molecule Detection in the λ/2-Regime
- 2.5 Microresonator-Controlled Single Molecule Fluorescence Spectra
- 2.6 Summary and Conclusion
- 3 Microresonator-Controlled Spontaneous Emission Rates of Single Molecules
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Experimental
- 3.3 Microresonator-Controlled Spontaneous Emission Rate
- 3.4 Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging
- 3.5 Detection Efficiency for On- and Off-Axis Emission
- 3.6 Transverse Correlation Length and Intermolecular Distance
- 3.7 Summary and Conclusion
- 4 The Spectral Shape of Microresonator-Controlled Molecular Fluorescence
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Experimental
- 4.3 Output for Varying Mirror Spacing and Dopant Concentration
- 4.4 On-Axis Transmission versus Molecular Emission
- 4.5 Single Molecule Fluorescence Spectra for Varying Mirror Spacing
- 4.6 Summary and Conclusion
- 5 Spontaneous Emission Rate, Output and Stimulated Emission Efficiency in a λ/2-Microresonator
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Experimental
- 5.3 Fluorescence Dynamics
- 5.4 Fluorescence Rate and Output Efficiency
- 5.5 The Coupling Ratio β
- 5.6 Output Fluctuations and Stimulated Emission Efficiency
- 5.7 Summary and Conclusion
- 6 Spatial Modes of a λ/2-Microresonator
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Experimental
- 6.3 Radiation Patterns for Representative Mirror Spacings
- 6.4 Shape and Intensity Fluctuations of Isolated Spatial Modes
- 6.5 Formation and Decay of a Spatial Double Mode
- 6.6 Summary and Conclusion
- 7 Vibronic Coupling of Single Molecules to Photonic Modes of a λ/2-Microresonator
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Experimental
- 7.3 Vibronic Coupling and Single Molecule Fluorescence
- 7.4 Vibronic Coupling and Raman Scattering
- 7.5 Summary and Conclusion
- 8 Single Molecule Fourier Spectroscopy
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Experimental
- 8.3 Spectral Width and Temporal Coherence
- 8.4 Single Photon Two-Beam Interference
- 8.5 Zero-Phonon Line, Phonon Wing and the Debye-Waller factor
- 8.6 Single Molecule Fourier Transform Fluorescence Spectra
- 8.7 Beating induced by the Phonon Wing
- 8.8 Summary and Conclusion
- References
- A Acknowledgement
- B Abstract
- C Zusammenfassung