Fig. 5From: Spontaneous emission in micro- or nanophotonic structuresSpontaneous emission enhancement in PC structures. a The SEM structure image of the inverse opal 3D PCs [162]. b Measured decay rates of the excited states in the inverse opal 3D PCs with different lattice parameters [162]. c Illustration of a single photon source based on a one-way PC waveguide [163]. d Effective decay rate with different positions in the structure (c) [163]Back to article page