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Optics Letters

Correlations in pulsed resonance fluorescence

Kumarasiri Konthasinghe, M. Peiris, Benjamin Petrak, Yingying Yu, Zhichuan Niu, Andreas Müller

Published Apr 9, 2015• 7 citations
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Abstract

We investigated the first and second-order correlations of the light scattered near-resonantly by a quantum dot under excitation by a frequency comb, i.e., a periodically pulsed laser source. In contrast to its monochromatic counterpart, the pulsed resonance fluorescence spectrum features a superposition of sidebands distributed around a central peak with maximal sideband intensity near the Rabi frequency. Distinguishing between the coherently and incoherently scattered light reveals pulse-area dependent Rabi oscillations evolving with different phase for each component. Our observations, which can be reproduced theoretically, may impact schemes for remote entanglement based on pulsed two-photon interference.

DOI
10.1364/ol.40.001846

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