Frontiers in Optics

Quantum Optics of Semiconductor Excitons

Georgios Roumpos, Andrew S. Hunter, Steven T. Cundiff

Published Jan 1, 2012• 0 citations

Abstract

Careful measurements of the excitonic response to varying coherent states allow the excitonic response to other quantum statistics to be determined. Using this method, we show that quantum optical correlations can map onto excitonic correlations.

DOI: 10.1364/ls.2012.lm3j.1

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