Quantum Optics with Semiconductor Nanostructures

Contributor contact details Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials Preface Part I: Single quantum dot systems Chapter 1: Resonance fluorescence emission from single semiconductor quantum dots coupled to high-quality microcavities Abstract 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Emitter state preparation in single semiconductor quantum dots: role of dephasing 1.3 Resonance fluorescence from a single semiconductor quantum dot 1.4 Dephasing of Mollow triplet sideband emission from a quantum dot in a microcavity 1.5 The phenomenon of non-resonant quantum dot-cavity coupling 1.6 Conclusion 1.7 Acknowledgments Chapter 2: Quantum optics with single quantum dots in photonic crystal cavities Abstract: 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Integrated, solid-state quantum optics platform: InAs quantum dots (QDs) and photonic crystal nanocavities 2.3 Photon blockade and photon-assisted tunneling 2.4 Fast, electrical control of a single quantum dot-cavity system 2.5 Phonon-mediated off-resonant interaction in a quantum dot-cavity system 2.6 Quantum photonic interfaces between InAs quantum dots and telecom wavelengths 2.7 Future trends and conclusions 2.8 Acknowledgments Chapter 3: Modeling single quantum dots in microcavities Abstract: 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Building blocks of the coupled microcavity-quantum dot system 3.3 Theoretical description of the single-quantum dot-microcavity system 3.4 Numerical methods and characteristic quantities 3.5 Competing electronic configurations and input/output characteristics of a single-quantum dot laser 3.6 Sources of dephasing and spectral linewidths 3.7 Analogy to the two-level system 3.8 Conclusions Part II: Nanolasers with quantum dot emitters Chapter 4: Highly efficient quantum dot micropillar lasers Abstract: 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Theoretical description of high-ß microlasers 4.3 Fabrication of quantum dot (QD) micropillar lasers 4.4 Optical characterization and pre-selection of QD micropillars for lasing studies 4.5 Lasing in optically pumped QD micropillar lasers 4.6 Lasing in electrically pumped QD micropillar lasers 4.7 Future trends and conclusions 4.8 Acknowledgments Chapter 5: Photon correlations in semiconductor nanostructures Abstract: 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Theoretical description of light-matter coupling 5.3 Photon statistics 5.4 Experimental approaches to photon correlation measurements 5.5 Correlation measurements on semiconductor nanostructures 5.6 Future trends and conclusions Chapter 6: Emission properties of photonic crystal nanolasers Abstract 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Design of photonic crystal (PC) nanocavities 6.3 Optical emission properties of quantum dots (QDs) in PC nanocavities 6.4 Signatures of lasing in PC nanolasers 6.5 Detuning experiments: the quest for the gain mechanism 6.6 Conclusions 6.7 Acknowledgments Chapter 7: Deformed wavelength-scale microdisk lasers with quantum dot emitters Abstract: 7 1 Introduction 7.2 Ray-wave correspondence in microdisk cavities 7.3 Modified ray-wave correspondence in wavelength-scale cavities 7.4 Wavelength-scale asymmetric resonant microcavity lasers 7.5 Conclusions 7.6 Acknowledgment Part III: Light-matter interaction in semiconductor nanostructures Chapter 8: Photon statistics and entanglement in phonon-assisted quantum light emission from semiconductor quantum dots Abstract: 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Incoherently driven emission: phonon-assisted single quantum dot luminescence 8.3 Entanglement analysis of a quantum dot biexciton cascade 8.4 Coherently driven emission 8.5 Equations of motion 8.6 Emission dynamics 8.7 Emission from strongly coupled quantum dot cavity quantum electrodynamics 8.8 Phonon-assisted polariton signatures 8.9 Phonon-enhanced antibunching 8.10 Conclusions Chapter 9: Luminescence spectra of quantum dots in microcavities Abstract: 9.1 Introduction 9.2 The Jaynes-Cummings model 9.3 Luminescence spectra 9.4 Experimental implementations and observations 9.5 Luminescence spectra in the nonlinear regime 9.