Electrically driven quantum dot micropillar light sources

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1670-1680

  Reitzenstein, Stephan ^a   Heindel, Tobias ^a   Kistner, Caroline ^a   Albert, Ferdinand ^a   Braun, Tristan ^a   Hopfmann, Caspar ^a   Mrowinski, Pawel ^a,b   Lermer, Matthias ^a   Schneider, Christian ^a   Höfling, Sven ^a   Kamp, Martin ^a   Forchel, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

lasing; microcavity; Quantum dots (QDs); single photon emission

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; BUILDING BLOCKES; CAVITY QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURES; EFFICIENT COUPLING; ELECTRICAL PUMPING; ELECTRICALLY PUMPED; GAAS; HIGH POTENTIAL; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH QUALITY FACTORS; IN-PLANE; INJECTION SCHEMES; INTEGRATED LIGHT SOURCE; LASER THRESHOLD CURRENT; LASING; LASING MODES; LIGHT OUTPUT; LOW THRESHOLDS; MICRO LASER; MICRO-PILLARS; MICROCAVITY STRUCTURES; MICROPILLAR CAVITIES; MULTI-PHOTON EMISSION; PHOTON EXTRACTION EFFICIENCY; PHOTONIC NETWORK; QUANTUM DOTS (QDS); QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; QUANTUM REPEATERS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; LIGHT SOURCES; MICROCAVITIES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 83555172482     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2011.2107504     Document Type: Article

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