Raman scattering and anti-Stokes emission from a single spherical microcavity with a CdTe quantum dot monolayer

We have studied the Raman and luminescence spectra of a microcavity–quantum dot system consisting of a melamine formaldehyde latex microsphere coated by CdTe colloidal quantum dots. The cavity-induced enhancement of the Raman scattering allows the observation of Raman spectra from only a monolayer of CdTe quantum dots. Periodic structure with very narrow peaks in the luminescence spectra of a single microsphere was detected arising from the coupling between the emission from quantum dots and spherical cavity modes. Strong anti-Stokes emission from CdTe quantum dots coupled to the cavity modes was observed using low intensity below band-gap excitation and attributed to the strong field enhancement at the microcavity resonances.