Deterministic photon pairs and coherent optical control of a single quantum dot

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 13, 2013, Pages

  Jayakumar, Harishankar ^a   Predojević, Ana ^a   Huber, Tobias ^a   Kauten, Thomas ^a   Solomon, Glenn S ^b   Weihs, Gregor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIEXCITON BINDING ENERGY; EXCITATION LASERS; MULTI-PHOTON EMISSION; RESONANT EXCITATION; SELF ASSEMBLED QUANTUM DOTS; SINGLE QUANTUM DOT; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; STRONG CONFINEMENT;

EXCITONS; LASER EXCITATION; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84875739245     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.135505     Document Type: Article

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