Anomalous phonon-mediated damping of a driven quantum dot embedded in a high-Q semiconductor microcavity

Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 359-368

  Roy, C ^a   Kim, H ^b,c   Waks, E ^b,c   Hughes, S ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavity QED; Electron phonon scattering; Master equations; Mollow triplets; Quantum dots; Resonance fluorescence

Indexed keywords

CAVITY-QED; ELECTRON PHONON SCATTERING; MASTER EQUATIONS; MOLLOW TRIPLETS; RESONANCE FLUORESCENCES;

CAVITY RESONATORS; DAMPING; EXCITONS; FLUORESCENCE; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; PUMPS; QUANTUM OPTICS; RESONANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR COUNTERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

PHONONS;

EID: 84866356536     PISSN: 15694410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.photonics.2012.05.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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