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| Authors | Matthew Pelton, Charles Santori, Jelena Vuckovic, Bingyang Zhang, Glenn S. Solomon, Jocelyn Plant, Yoshihisa Yamamoto |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0208054 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0208054 |
| DOI | 10.1016/S1386-9477(02)00872-X |
Abstract
We have demonstrated efficient production of triggered single photons by coupling a single semiconductor quantum dot to a three-dimensionally confined optical mode in a micropost microcavity. The efficiency of emitting single photons into a single-mode travelling wave is approximately 38%, which is nearly two orders of magnitude higher than for a quantum dot in bulk semiconductor material. At the same time, the probability of having more than one photon in a given pulse is reduced by a factor of seven as compared to light with Poissonian photon statistics.
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