We develop a self-consistent, microscopic theory of coherent resonant secondary emission from semiconductor microcavities in the normal-mode-coupling regime. Our theory provides a quantitative description of the spectral, temporal, and angular properties of the disorder-induced emission component-resonant Rayleigh scattering-and offers an intuitive physical explanation of emission properties.
Understanding the behavior of the evanescent part of the electromagnetic field has important implications in many branches of modern physics, such as near-field optics. Motivated by recent disagreement in the literature, we derive an expression for the far-field asymptotic behavior of the free-space electromagnetic Green tensor that is due to the evanescent modes.
We propose a method of designing two-dimensional random surfaces that scatter light uniformly within a specified range of angles and produce no scattering outside that range. The method is first tested by means of computer simulations. Then a procedure for fabricating such structures on photoresist is described, and light-scattering measurements with the fabricated samples are presented. The results validate the design procedure and show that the fabrication method is feasible.
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