Bright single photon source based on self-aligned quantum dot-cavity systems

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 8136-8142

  Maier, Sebastian ^a   Gold, Peter ^a   Forchel, Alfred ^a   Gregersen, Niels ^b   Mørk, Jesper ^b   Höfling, Sven ^a,c   Schneider, Christian ^a   Kamp, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; PARTICLE BEAMS;

EXTRACTION EFFICIENCIES; GAUSSIANS; OPERATION MECHANISM; QUANTUM-DOT-BASED SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCES; RESONATOR GEOMETRY; SELF-ALIGNED; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84898651795     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.008136     Document Type: Article

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