High-brightness single photon source from a quantum dot in a directional-emission nanocavity

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 14618-14626

  Toishi, Mitsuru ^a,b   Englund, Dirk ^c   Faraon, Andrei ^d   Vučković, Jelena ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SONY CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; COUPLED QUANTUM DOTS; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; DIRECTIONAL EMISSION; EFFICIENT COUPLING; EMISSION FREQUENCY; INAS QUANTUM DOTS; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

GALLIUM; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; INDIUM; INDIUM ARSENIDE; ORGANOARSENIC DERIVATIVE; QUANTUM DOT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; LASER; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; PHOTON; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE;

ALGORITHMS; ARSENICALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; GALLIUM; INDIUM; LASERS; LUMINESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; QUANTUM DOTS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 69049104220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.014618     Document Type: Article

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