Resonant Energy Transfer and Upconversion in Optical Cavities

Michael D. LaCount, Mark T. Lusk

Published 2016-02-29Version 1

Resonant energy transfer, energy transfer upconversion, and energy pooling are considered within optical cavities to elucidate the relationship between exciton dynamics and donor/acceptor separation distance. This is accomplished using perturbation theory to derive analytic expressions for the electric dipole coupling tensors of perfect planar and rectangular channel reflectors. In the near field, it is found that the separation dependence along the cavity axis is not influenced by the cavity and is essentially the same as for three-dimensional, free space. This is in sharp contrast to the reduced separation sensitivity found in low-dimensional settings. The cavity dynamics only correspond to their reduced dimensional counterparts in the far-field where such excitonic processes are not typically of interest.