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Correlated Photon Emission from a Single II-VI Quantum Dot

C. Couteau, S. Moehl, F. Tinjod, J. M. Gérard, K. Kheng, H. Mariette, J. A. Gaj, R. Romestain, J. P. Poizat

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0410024

Abstract

We report correlation and cross-correlation measurements of photons emitted under continuous wave excitation by a single II-VI quantum dot (QD) grown by molecular-beam epitaxy. A standard technique of microphotoluminescence combined with an ultrafast photon correlation set-up allowed us to see an antibunching effect on photons emitted by excitons recombining in a single CdTe/ZnTe QD, as well as cross-correlation within the biexciton (X2)-exciton (X) radiative cascade from the same dot. Fast microchannel plate photomultipliers and a time-correlated single photon module gave us an overall temporal resolution of 140 ps better than the typical exciton lifetime in II-VI QDs of about 250ps.

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