Cryogenic spectroscopy of ultra-low density colloidal lead chalcogenide quantum dots on chip-scale optical cavities towards single quantum dot near-infrared cavity QED

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 22474-22483

  Bose, Ranojoy ^a   Gao, Jie ^a   McMillan, James F ^a   Williams, Alex D ^a   Wong, Chee Wei ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHALCOGENIDES; ELECTRODYNAMICS; INFRARED DEVICES; LEAD; NANOCRYSTALS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY;

CAVITY QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; LEAD CHALCOGENIDES; OPTICAL CAVITIES; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; SATURATION SPECTROSCOPY; SINGLE QUANTUM DOT; SPARSE DENSITIES; ULTRA LOW DENSITY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CHALCOGEN; LEAD; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COLD; COLLOID; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROCHIP ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY;

CHALCOGENS; COLD TEMPERATURE; COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEAD; MICROCHIP ANALYTICAL PROCEDURES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 72049103689     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.022474     Document Type: Article

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