High performance single photon sources from photolithographically defined pillar microcavities
Optics Express, Vol. 13, Issue 1, pp. 50-55 (2005)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OPEX.13.000050
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Abstract
We demonstrate that single photons can be generated from single InAs/GaAs quantum dots in photolithographically defined pillar microcavities. Pillars with a 1.9 µm diameter cavity show a four fold enhancement in the radiative decay rate due to the Purcell effect and a photon collection efficiency into a lens of up to 10%. Measurements of the second order correlation function reveal a greater than fifty fold reduction in the multi-photon emission rate compared to a laser of the same intensity.
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OCIS Codes
(270.5290) Quantum optics : Photon statistics
(300.6250) Spectroscopy : Spectroscopy, condensed matter
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History
Original Manuscript: November 17, 2004
Revised Manuscript: December 15, 2004
Published: January 10, 2005
Citation
A. Bennett, D. Unitt, P. Atkinson, D. Ritchie, and A. Shields, "High performance single photon sources from photolithographically defined pillar microcavities," Opt. Express 13, 50-55 (2005)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-13-1-50
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