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On-demand semiconductor single-photon source with near-unity indistinguishability

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Pulsed resonance fluorescence has been anticipated as the optimum condition for the deterministic generation of high-quality photons with vanishing effects of dephasing and is generated from a single, microcavity-embedded quantum dot under s-shell excitation with 3 ps laser pulses.
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Pulse-excited resonance-fluorescence single-photons are generated on demand from a single quantum dot embedded in a microcavity under s-shell excitation with an ultrafast laser source.

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On-Demand Single Photons with High Extraction Efficiency and Near-Unity Indistinguishability from a Resonantly Driven Quantum Dot in a Micropillar.

TL;DR: By s-shell pulsed resonant excitation of a Purcell-enhanced quantum dot-micropillar system, deterministically generate resonance fluorescence single photons which, at π pulse excitation, have an extraction efficiency of 66, single-photon purity of 99.1%, and photon indistinguishability of 98.5%.
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