Deterministic generation of bright single resonance fluorescence photons from a purcell-enhanced quantum dot-micropillar system

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 26, 2015, Pages 32977-32985

  Unsleber, Sebastian ^a   Schneider, Christian ^a   Maier, Sebastian ^a   He, Yu Ming ^a,c   Gerhardt, Stefan ^a   Lu, Chao Yang ^c   Pan, Jian Wei ^c   Kamp, Martin ^a   Höfling, Sven ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; EXCITED STATES; EXTRACTION; FLUORESCENCE; NANOCRYSTALS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

COUPLED QUANTUM DOTS; EXTRACTION EFFICIENCIES; LINEAR POLARIZATION; MICROPILLAR CAVITIES; PULSED OPTICAL EXCITATION; RABI OSCILLATIONS; RESONANCE FLUORESCENCES; SINGLE QUANTUM DOT;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84961768116     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.032977     Document Type: Article

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