Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Highly anisotropic decay rate of single quantum dots in photonic crystal membranes

Q. Wang, Søren Stobbe, H. Thyrrestup, Holger Friedrich Hofmann, Martin Kamp, Benedikt Frieß, L. Worschech, Thomas W. Schlereth, Sven Höfling, Peter Lodahl

Published Jan 1, 2010• 0 citations

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Abstract

We have measured the variation of the spontaneous emission rate with polarization for self-assembled single quantum dots in two-dimensional photonic crystal membranes, and obtained a maximum anisotropy factor of 6 between the decay rates of the two nondegenerate bright states.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo.2010.cmff5

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