Controlling the Spontaneous Emission Rate of Single Quantum Dots in a Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Export

@article{citeulike:5695168, abstract = {We observe large spontaneous emission rate modification of individual InAs quantum dots (QDs) in a 2D photonic crystal with a modified; high- Q single-defect cavity. Compared to QDs in a bulk semiconductor; QDs that are resonant with the cavity show an emission rate increase of up to a factor of 8. In contrast; off-resonant QDs indicate up to fivefold rate quenching as the local density of optical states is diminished in the photonic crystal. In both cases; we demonstrate photon antibunching; showing that the structure represents an on-demand single photon source with a pulse duration from 210 ps to 8 ns. We explain the suppression of QD emission rate using finite difference time domain simulations and find good agreement with experiment.}, author = {Englund, Dirk and Fattal, David and Waks, Edo and Solomon, Glenn and Zhang, Bingyang and Nakaoka, Toshihiro and Arakawa, Yasuhiko and Yamamoto, Yoshihisa and Vu\v{c}kovi\'{c}, Jelena}, citeulike-article-id = {5695168}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.013904}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v95/i1/e013904}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://link.aps.org/pdf/PRL/v95/i1/e013904}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.013904}, journal = {Physical Review Letters}, keywords = {cavity, experimental}, month = {Jul}, number = {1}, pages = {013904+}, posted-at = {2009-08-31 23:01:16}, priority = {2}, publisher = {American Physical Society}, title = {Controlling the Spontaneous Emission Rate of Single Quantum Dots in a Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.013904}, volume = {95}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5695168 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5695168 N2 - We observe large spontaneous emission rate modification of individual InAs quantum dots (QDs) in a 2D photonic crystal with a modified; high- Q single-defect cavity. Compared to QDs in a bulk semiconductor; QDs that are resonant with the cavity show an emission rate increase of up to a factor of 8. In contrast; off-resonant QDs indicate up to fivefold rate quenching as the local density of optical states is diminished in the photonic crystal. In both cases; we demonstrate photon antibunching; showing that the structure represents an on-demand single photon source with a pulse duration from 210 ps to 8 ns. We explain the suppression of QD emission rate using finite difference time domain simulations and find good agreement with experiment. IS - 1 JF - Physical Review Letters TI - Controlling the Spontaneous Emission Rate of Single Quantum Dots in a Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal PB - American Physical Society VL - 95 SP - 013904 KW - cavity KW - experimental AU - Englund, Dirk AU - Fattal, David AU - Waks, Edo AU - Solomon, Glenn AU - Zhang, Bingyang AU - Nakaoka, Toshihiro AU - Arakawa, Yasuhiko AU - Yamamoto, Yoshihisa AU - Vučković, Jelena PY - 2005/Jul// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.013904 ER -