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

Theory of time-resolved Raman and fluorescence emission of semiconductor quantum dots

Julia Kabuß, Andreas Knorr, Marten Richter

Published Jun 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

A theoretical analysis of the different scattering contribution during the quantum emission process in InGaAs-GaAs semiconductor quantum dots and explain their specific temporal dynamics in current experimental data was presented.The photon-coherence couples to the photon assisted polarization, which couples itself to higher order correlations including phonons. The resulting infinite hierarchy of equations is truncated using a higher order Born factorization.

DOI
10.1109/cleoe-eqec.2009.5194788

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