Vacuum Rabi splitting with a single quantum dot in a photonic crystal nanocavity

Nature

Volumn 432, Issue 7014, 2004, Pages 200-203

  Yoshle, T ^a   Scherer, A ^a   Hendrickson, J ^b   Khitrova, G ^b   Gibbs, H M ^b   Rupper, G ^b   Ell, C ^b   Shchekin, O B ^c   Deppe, D G ^c  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

PHOTONIC BANDGAP; QUANTUM DECOHERENCE; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS (QED); QUANTUM-CLASSICAL BOUNDARY;

ELECTRODYNAMICS;

NANOPARTICLE;

ELECTRODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; DIPOLE; DYNAMICS; ENERGY; LIGHT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; OPTICAL ROTATION; OPTICS; PARAMETER; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEMICONDUCTOR; SOLID STATE; TECHNIQUE; VACUUM;

EID: 9244245742     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03119     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Berman, P. (ed.) Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics (Academic, San Diego, 1994).
2. Brune, M. et al. Quantum Rabi oscillations: A direct test of field quantization in a cavity. Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1800-1803 (1996).
3. Haroche, S. Entanglement, decoherence, and the quantum/classical boundary. Phys. Today 36-42 (July 1998).
4. Raimond, J. M., Brune, M. & Haroche, S. Colloquium: Manipulating quantum entanglement with atoms and photons in a cavity. Rev. Mod. Phys. 73, 565-582 (2001).
5. Mabuchi, H. & Doherty, A. C. Cavity quantum electrodynamics: Coherence in context. Science 298, 1372-1377 (2002).
6. McKeever, J., Boca, A., Boozer, A. D., Buck, J. R. & Kimble, H. J. Experimental realization of a one-atom laser in the regime of strong coupling. Nature 425, 268-271 (2003).
7. Keller, M., Lange, B., Hayasaka, K., Lange, W. & Walther, H. Deterministic coupling of single ions to an optical cavity. Appl. Phys. B 76, 125-128 (2003).
8. + ion in a high finesse cavity. Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 203002 (2004).
9. Wallraff, A. et al. Strong coupling of a single photon to a superconducting qubit using circuit quantum electrodynamics. Nature 431, 162-167 (2004).
10. Khitrova, G., Gibbs, H. M., Jahnke, F., Kira, M. & Koch, S. W. Nonlinear optics of normal-mode-coupling semiconductor microcavities. Rev. Mod. Phys. 71, 1591-1639 (1999).
11. Yablonovitch, E. Inhibited spontaneous emission in solid-state physics and electronics. Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 2059-2062 (1987).
12. Painter, O. et al. Two-dimensional photonic band-gap defect mode laser. Science 284, 1819-1821 (1999).
13. Akahane, Y., Asano, T., Song, B.-S. & Noda, S. High-Q photonic nanocavity in a two-dimensional photonic crystal. Nature 425, 944-947 (2003).
14. Marzin, J.-Y., Gérard, J.-M., Izraël, A., Barrier, D. & Bastard, G. Photoluminescence of single InAs quantum dots obtained by self-organized growth on GaAs. Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 716-719 (1994).
15. Brunner, K., Abstreiter, G., Böhm, G., Tränkle, G., & Weimann, G. Sharp-line photoluminescence and two-photon absorption of zero-dimensional biexcitons in a GaAs/AlGaAs structure. Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 1138-1141 (1994).
16. Gammon, D. & Steel, D. G. Optical studies of single quantum dots. Phys. Today 36-41 (October 2002).
17. Weisbuch, C., Nishioka, M., Ishikawa, A. & Arakawa, Y. Observation of the coupled exciton-photon mode splitting in a semiconductor quantum microcavity. Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 3314-3317 (1992).
18. Gammon, D., Snow, E. S., Shanabrook, B. V., Katzer, D. S. & Park, D. Fine structure in the optical spectra of single GaAs quantum dots. Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 3005-3008 (1996).
19. Petroff, P. M., Lorke, A. & Imamoglu, A. Epitaxially self-assembled quantum dots. Phys. Today 46-52 (May 2001).
20. Zrenner, A. et al. Coherent properties of a two-level system based on a quantum-dot photodiode. Nature 418, 612-614 (2002).
21. Moreau, E. et al. Single-mode solid-state single photon source based on isolated quantum dots in pillar microcavities. Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 2865-2867 (2001).
22. Bayer, M. et al. Inhibition and enhancement of the spontaneous emission of quantum dots in structured microcavities. Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3168-3171 (2001).
23. 1-xAs quantum dots in a two-dimensional photonic-crystal defect microcavity. Phys. Rev. B 66, 041303(R) (2002).
24. Vahala, K. J. Optical microcavities. Nature 424, 839-846 (2003).
25. Santori, C., Fattal, D., Vuc̀ković, J., Solomon, G. S. & Yamamoto, Y. Indistinguishable photons from a single-photon device. Nature 419, 594-597 (2002).
26. Yoshie, T., Shchekin, O. B., Chen, H., Deppe, D. G. & Scherer, A. Planar photonic crystal nanolasers (II): Low-threshold quantum dot lasers. IEICE Trans. Electron. E87-C, 300-307 (2004).
27. Kiraz, A. et al. Cavity-quantum electrodynamics using a single InAs quantum dot in a microdisk structure. Appl. Phys. Lett. 78, 2932-2934 (2001).
28. Carmichael, H. J., Brecha, R. J., Raizen, M. G., Kimble, H. J. & Rice, P. R. Subnatural linewidth averaging for coupled atomic and cavity-mode oscillators. Phys. Rev. A 40, 5516-5519 (1989).
29. Stanley, R. P., Houdré, R., Weisbuch, C., Oesterle, U. & Ilegems, M. Cavity-polariton photoluminescence in semiconductor microcavities: Experimental evidence. Phys. Rev. B 53, 10995-11007 (1996).
30. Lee, E. S. et al. Saturation of normal-mode coupling in aluminium-oxide-aperture semiconductor nanocavities. J. Appl. Phys. 89, 807-809 (2001).