Photon anti-bunching in acoustically pumped quantum dots

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 645-648

  Couto Jr , O D D ^a   Lazi, S ^a   Iikawa, F ^a,b   Stotz, J A H ^c   Jahn, U ^a   Hey, R ^a   Santos, P V ^a  

^a PAUL DRUDE INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERELEKTRONIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PHONONS; ANTI-BUNCHING; ELECTRONS AND HOLES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; NANOSTRUCTURED SYSTEMS; PIEZOELECTRIC POTENTIAL; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; TUNABLE EMISSIONS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 70350754197     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.191     Document Type: Article

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