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

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

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Abstract

We report on the observation of bright emission of single photons under pulsed resonance fluorescence conditions from a single quantum dot (QD) in a micropillar cavity. The brightness of the QD fluorescence is greatly enhanced via the coupling to the fundamental mode of a micropillar, allowing us to determine a single photon extraction efficiency of (20.7 ± 0.8) % per linear polarization basis. This yields an overall extraction efficiency of (41.4 ± 1.5) % in our device. We observe the first Rabi-oscillation in a weakly coupled quantum dot-micropillar system under coherent pulsed optical excitation, which enables us to deterministically populate the excited QD state. In this configuration, we probe the single photon statistics of the device yielding g(2)(0) = 0.072 ± 0.011 at a QD-cavity detuning of 75 μeV.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)32977-32985
Number of pages9
JournalOptics Express
Volume23
Issue number26
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 14 Dec 2015

Keywords

  • Quantum optics
  • Coherent optical effects
  • Photon statistics
  • Microcavity devices
  • Quantum communications

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