Coherent Writing of the Dark Exciton State Using One Picosecond Long Optical Pulse

Ido Schwartz, Dan Cogan, Emma Schmidgall, Liron Gantz, Yaroslav Don, D. Gershoni

Published Jan 1, 2015• 0 citations

Abstract

We demonstrate a one to one correspondence between the polarization of a picosecond optical pulse and the coherent spin state of the long lived dark exciton that it deterministically photogenerates in a single quantum dot.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_qels.2015.ff1b.4

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