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On-demand Single Photons from Individual Epitaxial Quantum Dots

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Author(s)

Richard P. Mirin, Martin J. Stevens

Abstract

We will describe our group's efforts to use epitaxial InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots as sources of on-demand single photons and indistinguishable single photons. We have demonstrated second order intensity correlation measurements, g2τ, with g2(0) as low as 0.09 at 5 K. g2(0) < 0.5 is demonstrated at temperatures up to 120 K, and nonclassical light is seen to 135 K. We will describe our progress towards microcavity-enhanced emission from single quantum dots, which is necessary for indistinguishable photon emission in this system.
Proceedings Title
Proc., Single Photon Sources and Detectors Workshop
Conference Dates
October 24-26, 2005
Conference Location
Teddington, UK

Keywords

antibunching, quantum dots, single photons

Citation

Mirin, R. and Stevens, M. (2005), On-demand Single Photons from Individual Epitaxial Quantum Dots, Proc., Single Photon Sources and Detectors Workshop, Teddington, UK, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=32068 (Accessed October 10, 2025)

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Created October 24, 2005, Updated February 19, 2017
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