The red shift of the semiconductor quantum dots luminescence maximum in the hollow core photonic crystal fibers

Abstract Hollow core microstructural optical waveguides (photonic crystal fibers) can affect intensity and spectrum position of luminophores emission located in the hollow core. Most strongly this effects could be in case of luminescence semiconductor nanoparticles – quantum dots (QDs) due to the narrow and symmetrical photoluminescence spectra. Study of the spectral effects arising from the superposition of QDs luminescence band on the photonic band gaps in the fiber transmission spectrum is both of fundamental and applied interest. This paper demonstrates the red shift of photoluminescence maximum of CdSe/ZnS QDs with core-shell structures. Luminescence maximum shift can be more than 10 nm, depending on the position of the photonic band gaps in the fiber transmission spectrum.