Highly indistinguishable on-demand resonance fluorescence photons from a deterministic quantum dot micropillar device with 74% extraction efficiency

Optics Express

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 8539-8546

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

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

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT SOURCES; NANOCRYSTALS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; QUANTUM THEORY; RESONANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; WAVE PACKETS;

DEVICE EFFICIENCY; EXTRACTION EFFICIENCIES; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; MICROPILLAR CAVITIES; RESONANCE FLUORESCENCES; RESONANT PUMPING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION; SINGLE QUANTUM DOT;

PHOTONS;

EID: 84964596881     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.24.008539     Document Type: Article

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