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. 2002 Dec 2;89(23):233602.
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.233602. Epub 2002 Nov 13.

Efficient source of single photons: a single quantum dot in a micropost microcavity

Matthew Pelton  1 , Charles Santori, Jelena Vucković, Bingyang Zhang, Glenn S Solomon, Jocelyn Plant, Yoshihisa Yamamoto
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Efficient source of single photons: a single quantum dot in a micropost microcavity

Matthew Pelton et al. Phys Rev Lett. .

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 traveling wave is approximately 38%, which is nearly 2 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 7 as compared to light with Poissonian photon statistics.

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