Simulating the Emission Properties of Luminescent Dyes within One-Dimensional Uniaxial Liquid Crystal Microcavities

Abstract

We have developed a simulation method which is capable of simulating the emissive properties of luminescent dyes inside uniaxial anistropic thin film microcavities[1]. The method uses plane wave decomposition of the electric field of a dipole antenna in a uniaxial medium and a scattering matrix formalism to account for interference and reflection from the various interfaces in the device. We apply this method to simulate the excitation of waveguide modes in a slab waveguide formed by reorientation of a liquid crystal. We investigate the emission both outside the device and into waveguided modes inside the liquid crystal device.

Keywords:

• Plane waves
• waveguides
• thin films
• fluorescence
• liquid crystals

Acknowledgments

The work leading to these results has received funding from the IWT (Flemish Institute for Science and Technology). The authors acknowledge the Belgian Science Policy (project IAP 6/10-photonics@be). The work leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement no. FP7-224122 (OLED100.eu).