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Nguyen HA, Dixon G, Dou FY, Gallagher S, Gibbs S, Ladd DM, Marino E, Ondry JC, Shanahan JP, Vasileiadou ES, Barlow S, Gamelin DR, Ginger DS, Jonas DM, Kanatzidis MG, Marder SR, Morton D, Murray CB, Owen JS, Talapin DV, Toney MF, Cossairt BM. Design Rules for Obtaining Narrow Luminescence from Semiconductors Made in Solution. Chem Rev 2023. [PMID: 37311205 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.3c00097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Solution-processed semiconductors are in demand for present and next-generation optoelectronic technologies ranging from displays to quantum light sources because of their scalability and ease of integration into devices with diverse form factors. One of the central requirements for semiconductors used in these applications is a narrow photoluminescence (PL) line width. Narrow emission line widths are needed to ensure both color and single-photon purity, raising the question of what design rules are needed to obtain narrow emission from semiconductors made in solution. In this review, we first examine the requirements for colloidal emitters for a variety of applications including light-emitting diodes, photodetectors, lasers, and quantum information science. Next, we will delve into the sources of spectral broadening, including "homogeneous" broadening from dynamical broadening mechanisms in single-particle spectra, heterogeneous broadening from static structural differences in ensemble spectra, and spectral diffusion. Then, we compare the current state of the art in terms of emission line width for a variety of colloidal materials including II-VI quantum dots (QDs) and nanoplatelets, III-V QDs, alloyed QDs, metal-halide perovskites including nanocrystals and 2D structures, doped nanocrystals, and, finally, as a point of comparison, organic molecules. We end with some conclusions and connections, including an outline of promising paths forward.
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- Hao A Nguyen
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1700, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1700, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1700, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1700, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1700, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80303, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Via Archirafi 36, 90123 Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80303, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1700, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1700, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80303, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80303, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80303, United States
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- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80303, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80303, United States
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80303, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80303, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1700, United States
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Ghosh S, Ross U, Chizhik AM, Kuo Y, Jeong BG, Bae WK, Park K, Li J, Oron D, Weiss S, Enderlein J, Chizhik AI. Excitation Intensity-Dependent Quantum Yield of Semiconductor Nanocrystals. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:2702-2707. [PMID: 36892266 PMCID: PMC10026174 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c00143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2023] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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One of the key phenomena that determine the fluorescence of nanocrystals is the nonradiative Auger-Meitner recombination of excitons. This nonradiative rate affects the nanocrystals' fluorescence intensity, excited state lifetime, and quantum yield. Whereas most of the above properties can be directly measured, the quantum yield is the most difficult to assess. Here we place semiconductor nanocrystals inside a tunable plasmonic nanocavity with subwavelength spacing and modulate their radiative de-excitation rate by changing the cavity size. This allows us to determine absolute values of their fluorescence quantum yield under specific excitation conditions. Moreover, as expected considering the enhanced Auger-Meitner rate for higher multiple excited states, increasing the excitation rate reduces the quantum yield of the nanocrystals.
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- Subhabrata Ghosh
- Third Institute
of Physics − Biophysics, Georg August
University Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- IV. Physical
Institute - Solids and Nanostructures, Georg
August University Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Third Institute
of Physics − Biophysics, Georg August
University Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University
of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- School of
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Pusan
National University, Busan 46241, Republic
of Korea
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- SKKU Advanced
Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT), Sungkyunkwan
University, Suwon 16419, Republic
of Korea
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- Korea Electronics
Technology Institute, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do 13509, Republic of Korea
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University
of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Department
of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University
of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
- California
NanoSystems Institute, University of California
Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
- Department
of Physiology, University of California
Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
- Department
of Physics, Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel
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- Third Institute
of Physics − Biophysics, Georg August
University Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- Cluster
of Excellence “Multiscale Bioimaging: from Molecular Machines
to Networks of Excitable Cells,” (MBExC), Georg August University of Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Str. 40, 37075 Göttingen, Germany
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- Third Institute
of Physics − Biophysics, Georg August
University Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Xie Y, Cai D, Pan J, Zhou N, Gao Y, Jin Y, Jiang X, Qiu J, Wang P, Guo X, Tong L. Batch Fabrication of High-Quality Infrared Chalcogenide Microsphere Resonators. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2021; 17:e2100140. [PMID: 33811462 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202100140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2021] [Revised: 02/09/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Optical microsphere resonators working in the near- and mid-infrared regions are highly required for a variety of applications, such as optical sensors, filters, modulators, and microlasers. Here, a simple and low-cost approach is reported for batch fabrication of high-quality chalcogenide glass (ChG) microsphere resonators by melting high-purity ChG powders in an oil environment. Q factors as high as 1.2 × 106 (7.4 × 105 ) are observed in As2 S3 (As2 Se3 ) microspheres (≈30 µm in diameter) around 1550-nm wavelength. Smaller microspheres with sizes around 10 µm also show excellent resonant responses (Q ≈ 2.5 × 105 ). Based on the mode splitting of an azimuthal mode in a microsphere resonator, eccentricities as low as ≈0.13% (≈0.17%) for As2 S3 (As2 Se3 ) microspheres are measured. Moreover, by coupling ChG microspheres with a biconical As2 S3 fiber taper, Q factors of ≈1.7 × 104 (≈1.6 × 104 ) are obtained in As2 S3 (As2 Se3 ) microspheres in the mid-infrared region (around 4.5 µm). The high-quality ChG microspheres demonstrated here are highly attractive for near- and mid-infrared optics, including optical sensing, optical nonlinearity, cavity quantum electrodynamics, microlasers, nanofocusing, and microscopic imaging.
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- Yu Xie
- State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, 030006, China
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Mandal A, Krauss TD, Huo P. Polariton-Mediated Electron Transfer via Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:6321-6340. [PMID: 32589846 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c03227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We investigate the polariton-mediated electron transfer reaction in a model system with analytic rate constant theory and direct quantum dynamical simulations. We demonstrate that the photoinduced charge transfer reaction between a bright donor state and dark acceptor state can be significantly enhanced or suppressed by coupling the molecular system to the quantized radiation field inside an optical cavity. This is because the quantum light-matter interaction can influence the effective driving force and electronic couplings between the donor state, which is the hybrid light-matter excitation, and the molecular acceptor state. Under the resonance condition between the photonic and electronic excitations, the effective driving force can be tuned by changing the light-matter coupling strength; for an off-resonant condition, the same effect can be accomplished by changing the molecule-cavity detuning. We further demonstrate that using both the electronic coupling and light-matter coupling helps to extend the effective couplings across the entire system, even for the dark state that carries a zero transition dipole. Theoretically, we find that both the counter-rotating terms and the dipole self-energy in the quantum electrodynamics Hamiltonian are important for obtaining an accurate polariton eigenspectrum as well as the polariton-mediated charge transfer rate constant, especially in the ultrastrong coupling regime.
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- Arkajit Mandal
- Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, 120 Trustee Road, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, 120 Trustee Road, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, 120 Trustee Road, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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Westmoreland DE, McClelland KP, Perez KA, Schwabacher JC, Zhang Z, Weiss EA. Properties of quantum dots coupled to plasmons and optical cavities. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:210901. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5124392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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- Dana E. Westmoreland
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA
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Cao C, Duan YW, Chen X, Zhang R, Wang TJ, Wang C. Implementation of single-photon quantum routing and decoupling using a nitrogen-vacancy center and a whispering-gallery-mode resonator-waveguide system. OPTICS EXPRESS 2017; 25:16931-16946. [PMID: 28789193 DOI: 10.1364/oe.25.016931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2017] [Accepted: 07/05/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Quantum router is a key element needed for the construction of future complex quantum networks. However, quantum routing with photons, and its inverse, quantum decoupling, are difficult to implement as photons do not interact, or interact very weakly in nonlinear media. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of implementing photonic quantum routing based on effects in cavity quantum electrodynamics, and present a scheme for single-photon quantum routing controlled by the other photon using a hybrid system consisting of a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center coupled with a whispering-gallery-mode resonator-waveguide structure. Different from the cases in which classical information is used to control the path of quantum signals, both the control and signal photons are quantum in our implementation. Compared with the probabilistic quantum routing protocols based on linear optics, our scheme is deterministic and also scalable to multiple photons. We also present a scheme for single-photon quantum decoupling from an initial state with polarization and spatial-mode encoding, which can implement an inverse operation to the quantum routing. We discuss the feasibility of our schemes by considering current or near-future techniques, and show that both the schemes can operate effectively in the bad-cavity regime. We believe that the schemes could be key building blocks for future complex quantum networks and large-scale quantum information processing.
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Lombardo D, Twamley J. Optical-coupling of distant spins via collective enhancement in multi-mode whispering gallery resonators. OPTICS EXPRESS 2015; 23:2945-2961. [PMID: 25836155 DOI: 10.1364/oe.23.002945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The quantum coupling of spatially distant spins via optical photons using cavity quantum electrodynamic (cQED) methods has proved experimentally challenging due to the large spin-photon coupling strengths required. To achieve such coupling strengths using traditional cQED methods requires either individual spins and ultra-small cavities or an ensemble of identical spins coupled to larger cavities. In this work we describe a method to couple distant spins via the collective enhanced coupling to a large ensemble ∼ N, of degenerate optical Whispering Gallery Modes (WGM) in a spherical resonator where the spins are spatially located at the antipodes. The setup can be scaled-up to build 1D, 2D and 3D cQED lattices to enable quantum simulation or computing.
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Lenferink EJ, Wei G, Stern NP. Coherent optical non-reciprocity in axisymmetric resonators. OPTICS EXPRESS 2014; 22:16099-16111. [PMID: 24977863 DOI: 10.1364/oe.22.016099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We describe an approach to optical non-reciprocity that exploits the local helicity of evanescent electric fields in axisymmetric resonators. By interfacing an optical cavity to helicity-sensitive transitions, such as Zeeman levels in a quantum dot, light transmission through a waveguide becomes direction-dependent when the state degeneracy is lifted. Using a linearized quantum master equation, we analyze the configurations that exhibit non-reciprocity, and we show that reasonable parameters from existing cavity QED experiments are sufficient to demonstrate a coherent non-reciprocal optical isolator operating at the level of a single photon.
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Grivas C, Li C, Andreakou P, Wang P, Ding M, Brambilla G, Manna L, Lagoudakis P. Single-mode tunable laser emission in the single-exciton regime from colloidal nanocrystals. Nat Commun 2014; 4:2376. [PMID: 23974520 PMCID: PMC3759098 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2013] [Accepted: 07/31/2013] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Whispering-gallery-mode resonators have been extensively used in conjunction with different materials for the development of a variety of photonic devices. Among the latter, hybrid structures, consisting of dielectric microspheres and colloidal core/shell semiconductor nanocrystals as gain media, have attracted interest for the development of microlasers and studies of cavity quantum electrodynamic effects. Here we demonstrate single-exciton, single-mode, spectrally tuned lasing from ensembles of optical antenna-designed, colloidal core/shell CdSe/CdS quantum rods deposited on silica microspheres. We obtain single-exciton emission by capitalizing on the band structure of the specific core/shell architecture that strongly localizes holes in the core, and the two-dimensional quantum confinement of electrons across the elongated shell. This creates a type-II conduction band alignment driven by coulombic repulsion that eliminates non-radiative multi-exciton Auger recombination processes, thereby inducing a large exciton-bi-exciton energy shift. Their ultra-low thresholds and single-mode, single-exciton emission make these hybrid lasers appealing for various applications, including quantum information processing.
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- Christos Grivas
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
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Fernée MJ, Sinito C, Louyer Y, Tamarat P, Lounis B. The ultimate limit to the emission linewidth of single nanocrystals. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2013; 24:465703. [PMID: 24157598 DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/24/46/465703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Measurements of the emission linewidth of single nanocrystals are usually limited by spectral diffusion. At cryogenic temperatures, the origin of this instability was revealed to be photo-induced, suggesting that the spectral peak position may be stable in the limit of vanishing optical excitation. Here we test this stability using resonant photoluminescence excitation and find there is persistent spectral broadening, which ultimately limits the emission linewidth in these materials. The spectral broadening is shown to be consistent with spontaneous fluctuations of the local electrostatic field within the disordered environment surrounding the nanocrystal.
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- Mark J Fernée
- Université Bordeaux, LP2N, F-33405 Talence, France. Institut d'Optique and CNRS, LP2N, F-33405 Talence, France
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Masia F, Accanto N, Langbein W, Borri P. Spin-flip limited exciton dephasing in CdSe/ZnS colloidal quantum dots. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2012; 108:087401. [PMID: 22463568 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.108.087401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2011] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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The dephasing time of the lowest bright exciton in CdSe/ZnS wurtzite quantum dots is measured from 5 to 170 K and compared with density dynamics within the exciton fine structure using a sensitive three-beam four-wave-mixing technique unaffected by spectral diffusion. Pure dephasing via acoustic phonons dominates the initial dynamics, followed by an exponential zero-phonon line dephasing of 109 ps at 5 K, much faster than the ~10 ns exciton radiative lifetime. The zero-phonon line dephasing is explained by phonon-assisted spin flip from the lowest bright state to dark-exciton states. This is confirmed by the temperature dependence of the exciton lifetime and by direct measurements of the bright-dark-exciton relaxation. Our results give an unambiguous evidence of the physical origin of the exciton dephasing in these nanocrystals.
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- Francesco Masia
- Cardiff University School of Physics and Astronomy, The Parade, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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Wang YC, Yuan CT, Yang YC, Wu MC, Tang J, Shih MH. High efficiency silicon nanodisk laser based on colloidal CdSe/ZnS QDs. NANO REVIEWS 2011; 2:NANO-2-7275. [PMID: 22110875 PMCID: PMC3215198 DOI: 10.3402/nano.v2i0.7275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2011] [Accepted: 06/23/2011] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Using colloidal CdSe/ZnS quantum dots in the submicron-sized silicon disk cavity, we have developed a visible wavelength nanodisk laser that operates under extremely low threshold power at room temperature. METHODS Time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) of QDs; nanodisk by e-beam lithography. RESULTS Observation of lasing action at 594 nm wavelength for quantum dots on a nanodisk (750 nm in diameter) cavity and an ultra-low threshold of 2.8 µW. CONCLUSION From QD concentration dependence studies we achieved nearly sevenfold increase in spontaneous emission (SE) rate. We have achieved high efficient and high SE coupling rate in such a QD nanodisk laser.
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- Yao-Chen Wang
- Research Center for Applied Sciences (RCAS), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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Livneh N, Strauss A, Schwarz I, Rosenberg I, Zimran A, Yochelis S, Chen G, Banin U, Paltiel Y, Rapaport R. Highly directional emission and photon beaming from nanocrystal quantum dots embedded in metallic nanoslit arrays. NANO LETTERS 2011; 11:1630-5. [PMID: 21443242 DOI: 10.1021/nl200052j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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We demonstrate a directional beaming of photons emitted from nanocrystal quantum dots that are embedded in a subwavelength metallic nanoslit array with a divergence angle of less than 4°. We show that the eigenmodes of the structure result in localized electromagnetic field enhancements at the Bragg cavity resonances, which could be controlled and engineered in both real and momentum space. The photon beaming is achieved using the enhanced resonant coupling of the quantum dots to these Bragg cavity modes, which dominates the emission properties of the quantum dots. We show that the emission probability of a quantum dot into the narrow angular mode is 20 times larger than the emission probability to all other modes. Engineering nanocrystal quantum dots with subwavelength metallic nanostructures is a promising way for a range of new types of active optical devices, where spatial control of the optical properties of nanoemitters is essential, on both the single and many photons level.
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- Nitzan Livneh
- The Benin School of Computer Sciences and Engineering, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904 Israel
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Ochsenbein ST, Gamelin DR. Quantum oscillations in magnetically doped colloidal nanocrystals. NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY 2011; 6:112-5. [PMID: 21170039 DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2010.252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2010] [Accepted: 11/17/2010] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Progress in the synthesis of colloidal quantum dots has recently provided access to entirely new forms of diluted magnetic semiconductors, some of which may find use in quantum computation. The usefulness of a spin qubit is defined by its Rabi frequency, which determines the operation time, and its coherence time, which sets the error correction window. However, the spin dynamics of magnetic impurity ions in colloidal doped quantum dots remain entirely unexplored. Here, we use pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy to demonstrate long spin coherence times of ∼0.9 µs in colloidal ZnO quantum dots containing the paramagnetic dopant Mn(2+), as well as Rabi oscillations with frequencies ranging between 2 and 20 MHz depending on microwave power. We also observe electron spin echo envelope modulations of the Mn(2+) signal due to hyperfine coupling with protons outside the quantum dots, a situation unique to the colloidal form of quantum dots, and not observed to date.
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- Stefan T Ochsenbein
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1700, USA
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Pisanello F, Qualtieri A, Stomeo T, Martiradonna L, Cingolani R, Bramati A, De Vittorio M. High-Purcell-factor dipolelike modes at visible wavelengths in H1 photonic crystal cavity. OPTICS LETTERS 2010; 35:1509-1511. [PMID: 20479791 DOI: 10.1364/ol.35.001509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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The optimization of H1 photonic crystal cavities for applications in the visible spectral range is reported, with the goal to obtain a versatile photonic platform to explore strongly and weakly coupled systems. The resonators have been realized in silicon nitride and weakly coupled to both organic (fluorophores) and inorganic (colloidal nanocrystals) nanoparticles emitting in the visible spectral range. The theoretical Purcell factor of the two dipolelike modes in the defect has been increased up to approximately 90, and the experimental quality factor was measured to be approximately 750.
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- Ferruccio Pisanello
- National Nanotechnology Laboratory, CNR/INFM, Scuola Superiore ISUFI, Università del Salento,16 Via Arnesano, 73100 Lecce, Italy.
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Meldrum A, Bianucci P, Marsiglio F. Modification of ensemble emission rates and luminescence spectra for inhomogeneously broadened distributions of quantum dots coupled to optical microcavities. OPTICS EXPRESS 2010; 18:10230-10246. [PMID: 20588877 DOI: 10.1364/oe.18.010230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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We investigate the spontaneous emission modifications when ensembles of quantum dots (QDs) with differing emission frequencies and finite Lorentzian linewidths are coupled to a microcavity. Using contour integrals we develop a general expression for the rate enhancement when neither the emitter nor the cavity resonance can be treated as a delta function. We show that the ensemble cavity-coupled luminescence lifetimes are generally suppressed in the case of spherical cavities and that the spontaneous emission dynamics of the cavity coupled component becomes increasingly stretched as the coupling factor increases. The Q-factor measured from the luminescence spectrum can be much lower than the intrinsic cavity Q-factor, and is in many practical situations limited by the QD spectral width. The mode spectrum observed in the photoluminescence (PL) spectrum can be largely determined by the QD emission linewidth, permitting this parameter to be extracted without requiring single-particle spectroscopy. In the case of Si-QDs, the linewidth cannot be significantly greater than 10 meV in order to observe spherical cavity resonances in the PL spectrum.
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- A Meldrum
- Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G7, Canada.
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Gómez DE, Vernon KC, Mulvaney P, Davis TJ. Surface plasmon mediated strong exciton-photon coupling in semiconductor nanocrystals. NANO LETTERS 2010; 10:274-8. [PMID: 20000744 DOI: 10.1021/nl903455z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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We present an experimental demonstration of strong coupling between a surface plasmon propagating on a planar silver thin film and the lowest excited state of CdSe nanocrystals. Attenuated total reflection measurements demonstrate the formation of plasmon-exciton mixed states, characterized by a Rabi splitting of approximately 112 meV at room temperature. Such a coherent interaction has the potential for the development of nonlinear plasmonic devices, and furthermore, this system is akin to those studied in cavity quantum electrodynamics, thus offering the possibility to study the regime of strong light-matter coupling in semiconductor nanocrystals under easily accessible experimental conditions.
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- D E Gómez
- CSIRO, Materials Science and Engineering, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia.
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Fenollosa R, Ramiro-Manzano F, Tymczenko M, Meseguer F. Porous silicon microspheres: synthesis, characterization and application to photonic microcavities. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1039/c0jm00079e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Bose R, Gao J, McMillan JF, Williams AD, Wong CW. Cryogenic spectroscopy of ultra-low density colloidal lead chalcogenide quantum dots on chip-scale optical cavities towards single quantum dot near-infrared cavity QED. OPTICS EXPRESS 2009; 17:22474-22483. [PMID: 20052171 DOI: 10.1364/oe.17.022474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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We present evidence of cavity quantum electrodynamics from a sparse density of strongly quantum-confined Pb-chalcogenide nanocrystals (between 1 and 10) approaching single-dot levels on moderately high-Q mesoscopic silicon optical cavities. Operating at important near-infrared (1500-nm) wavelengths, large enhancements are observed from devices and strong modifications of the QD emission are achieved. Saturation spectroscopy of coupled QDs is observed at 77K, highlighting the modified nanocrystal dynamics for quantum information processing.
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- Ranojoy Bose
- Optical Nanostructures Laboratory, Center for Integrated Science and Engineering, Solid-state Science and Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
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Larsson M, Dinyari KN, Wang H. Composite optical microcavity of diamond nanopillar and silica microsphere. NANO LETTERS 2009; 9:1447-1450. [PMID: 19253996 DOI: 10.1021/nl8032944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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A composite optical microcavity, in which nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in a diamond nanopillar are coupled to whispering gallery modes in a silica microsphere, is demonstrated. Nanopillars with a diameter as small as 200 nm are fabricated from a bulk diamond crystal by reactive ion etching and are positioned with nanometer precision near the equator of a silica microsphere. The composite nanopillar-microsphere system overcomes the poor controllability of a nanocrystal-based microcavity system and takes full advantage of the exceptional spin properties of NV centers and the ultrahigh quality factor of silica microspheres.
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- Mats Larsson
- Department of Physics and Oregon Center for Optics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
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Dousse A, Lanco L, Suffczyński J, Semenova E, Miard A, Lemaître A, Sagnes I, Roblin C, Bloch J, Senellart P. Controlled light-matter coupling for a single quantum dot embedded in a pillar microcavity using far-field optical lithography. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2008; 101:267404. [PMID: 19437672 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.101.267404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Using far-field optical lithography, a single quantum dot is positioned within a pillar microcavity with a 50 nm accuracy. The lithography is performed in situ at 10 K while measuring the quantum dot emission. Deterministic spectral and spatial matching of the cavity-dot system is achieved in a single step process and evidenced by the observation of strong Purcell effect. Deterministic coupling of two quantum dots to the same optical mode is achieved, a milestone for quantum computing.
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- A Dousse
- Laboratoire de Photonique et Nanostructures, LPN/CNRS, Route de Nozay, 91460 Marcoussis, France
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Schietinger S, Schröder T, Benson O. One-by-one coupling of single defect centers in nanodiamonds to high-Q modes of an optical microresonator. NANO LETTERS 2008; 8:3911-3915. [PMID: 18811213 DOI: 10.1021/nl8023627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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In this letter, we present the on-demand coupling of single NV(-) defect centers in nanodiamonds to a polystyrene microspherical resonator. From an ensemble on a coverslip, we select single nanodiamonds containing a single defect proven by a pronounced antibunching dip. With the help of a scanning near-field probe, we can attach these nanodiamonds to a microsphere resonator one-by-one. A clearly modulated fluorescence spectrum demonstrates coupling of the single defect centers to high-Q whispering-gallery modes. Our experiments establish a toolbox to assemble complex systems consisting of single quantum emitters and (coupled) microresonators.
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- Stefan Schietinger
- Nano-Optik, Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hausvogteiplatz 5-7, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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Fedutik Y, Temnov VV, Schöps O, Woggon U, Artemyev MV. Exciton-plasmon-photon conversion in plasmonic nanostructures. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2007; 99:136802. [PMID: 17930619 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.99.136802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2007] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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A silver-nanowire cavity is functionalized with CdSe nanocrystals and optimized towards cavity quantum electrodynamics by varying the nanocrystal-nanowire distance d and cavity length L. From the modulation of the nanocrystal emission by the cavity modes a plasmon group velocity of v (gr) approximately 0.5c is derived. Efficient exciton-plasmon-photon conversion and guiding is demonstrated along with a modification in the spontaneous emission rate of the coupled exciton-plasmon system.
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- Y Fedutik
- Fachbereich Physik, Universität Dortmund, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 4, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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Kahl M, Thomay T, Kohnle V, Beha K, Merlein J, Hagner M, Halm A, Ziegler J, Nann T, Fedutik Y, Woggon U, Artemyev M, Pérez-Willard F, Leitenstorfer A, Bratschitsch R. Colloidal quantum dots in all-dielectric high-Q pillar microcavities. NANO LETTERS 2007; 7:2897-900. [PMID: 17722946 DOI: 10.1021/nl071812x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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We have fabricated all-dielectric high-Q optical pillar resonators with embedded colloidal CdSe/ZnS quantum dots or rods as light emitters by focused ion beam milling. Three-dimensional light confinement and distinct pillar microcavity modes are observed. Results from a waveguide model for the mode patterns and their spectral positions are in excellent agreement with the experimental data. Cavities with elliptical cross sections show higher quality factors in the short axis direction than do circular resonators of the same cross-sectional area.
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- Matthias Kahl
- Department of Physics and Center for Applied Photonics, University of Konstanz, D-78464 Konstanz, Germany
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Xiao YF, Dong CH, Han ZF, Guo GC, Park YS. Directional escape from a high-Q deformed microsphere induced by short CO2 laser pulses. OPTICS LETTERS 2007; 32:644-6. [PMID: 17308588 DOI: 10.1364/ol.32.000644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Nonaxisymmetric fused-silica microspheres were fabricated by using only one microsphere by virtue of short pulses of a CO2 laser. Highly directional emission from whispering-gallery modes (WGMs) was studied through direct free-space evanescent excitation. The observed quality factors of WGMs are high, up to 2x10(7), despite this deformation. We show that WGMs in slightly deformed microspheres possibly play an important role in cavity quantum electrodynamics research.
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- Yun-Feng Xiao
- Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei
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Bratschitsch R, Leitenstorfer A. Quantum dots: artificial atoms for quantum optics. NATURE MATERIALS 2006; 5:855-6. [PMID: 17077848 DOI: 10.1038/nmat1768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Park YS, Cook AK, Wang H. Cavity QED with diamond nanocrystals and silica microspheres. NANO LETTERS 2006; 6:2075-9. [PMID: 16968028 DOI: 10.1021/nl061342r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Normal mode splitting is observed in a cavity QED system in which nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond nanocrystals are coupled to whispering gallery modes in a silica microsphere. The composite nanocrystal-microsphere system takes advantage of the exceptional spin properties of nitrogen vacancy centers as well as the ultrahigh quality factor of silica microspheres. The observation of the normal mode splitting indicates that the dipole optical interaction between the relevant nitrogen vacancy center and whispering gallery mode has reached the strong coupling regime of cavity QED.
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- Young-Shin Park
- Department of Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
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