arXiv:1103.1594 · Physical Review Letters
Dephasing of Triplet-Sideband Optical Emission of a Resonantly Driven InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot inside a Microcavity
Sven M. Ulrich, Serkan Ateş, Stephan Reitzenstein, Andreas Löffler, A. Forchel, Peter Michler
Abstract
Detailed properties of resonance fluorescence from a single quantum dot in a micropillar cavity are investigated, with particular focus on emission coherence in the dependence on optical driving field power and detuning. A power-dependent series over a wide range reveals characteristic Mollow triplet spectra with large Rabi splittings of |Ω|≤15 GHz. In particular, the effect of dephasing in terms of systematic spectral broadening ∝Ω(2) of the Mollow sidebands is observed as a strong fingerprint of excitation-induced dephasing. Our results are in excellent agreement with predictions of a recently presented model on phonon-dressed quantum dot Mollow triplet emission in the cavity-QED regime.