Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)

Observation of Faraday rotation from a single quantum-dot spin

Jan Gui‐Hyon Dreiser, Mete Atatüre, A. Badolato, Ataç İmamoğlu

Published Jun 1, 2007• 0 citations

Abstract

Here, we present an all-optical dispersive measurement of a single spin confined in a self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dot (QD) (Atature etl., 2007). The time-averaged spin-state is observed via spin-dependent Faraday rotation of a spectrally detuned laser, induced by the polarization-and spin-selective trion transitions. The measurement was performed with a spin prepared by an independent laser (Atature et al., 2006) and in the case of a thermal state.

DOI: 10.1109/cleoe-iqec.2007.4386932

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