On-demand semiconductor single-photon source with near-unity indistinguishability
Yu-Ming He,Yu He,Yu-Jia Wei,Dian Wu,Mete Atatüre,Mete Atatüre,Christian Schneider,Sven Höfling,Martin Kamp,Chao-Yang Lu,Chao-Yang Lu,Jian-Wei Pan +11 more
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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.Abstract:
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.read more
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