Modeling single quantum dots in microcavities

Quantum Optics with Semiconductor Nanostructures

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 78-114

  Gies, C ^a   Florian, M ^a   Jahnke, F ^a   Gartner, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lasers; Photon correlations; Quantum dots in microcavities; Semiconductor quantum optics; Single photon source; Theoretical modeling

Indexed keywords

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; EXCITED STATES; LASERS; LIGHT; MICROCAVITIES; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM DOT LASERS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY;

ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATION; EXCITONIC GROUND STATE; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; PHOTON CORRELATION; SEMICONDUCTOR PROPERTIES; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; THEORETICAL MODELING;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84875457120     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1533/9780857096395.1.78     Document Type: Chapter

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