Abstract

Eu 3+ ions have been incorporated into the silica skeleton of synthetic opal. The effect of the anisotropic photonic band gap structure upon the emission characteristics has been studied in the case where the emission bandwidth is narrower than the stop-band. Either suppression or enhancement of the spontaneous emission at the wavelength of the radiative transition has been observed, depending on the relative position of the emission band and the stop-band.

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