Comment on "Optical characterization of quantum dots entrained in microstructured optical fibers" [Physica E 26 (2005) 377-381]
Finlayson, C.E. (2006) Comment on "Optical characterization of quantum dots entrained in microstructured optical fibers" [Physica E 26 (2005) 377-381]. Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, 31, (1), 107-108. (doi:10.1016/j.physe.2005.10.005).
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In a recent paper, K.E. Meissner, C. Holton, W.B. Spillman Jr. [Physica E 26 (2005) 377] presented a study of the optical properties of colloidal CdSe/ZnS core-shell quantum dots entrained in a microstructured optical fiber. In particular, the authors claimed to have observed optical gain in this system through tight evanescent coupling between a probe light in the core of the fiber and photo-excited quantum dots in the cladding. I suggest that there are fundamental reasons, which are well investigated experimentally and documented, why such quantum dots cannot exhibit optical gain phenomena under continuous-wave excitation, as the authors suggest, and that the experimental results and interpretation do not address these issues, nor do they adequately justify the conclusions reached.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Q Science T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering T Technology Q Science > QC Physics |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > Optoelectronics Research Centre |
| Item ID: | 42395 |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Dec 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 13:51 |
| Contributors: | Finlayson, C.E. (Author) |
| Date: | 2006 |
| Status: | Published |
| Contact Email Address: | cef26@cam.ac.uk |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/42395 |
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