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Deterministic Writing and Control of the Dark Exciton State using Short Single Optical Pulses

Ido Schwartz, Emma Schmidgall, Liron Gantz, Dan Cogan, Eliyahu Bordo, D. Gershoni

Published Jan 1, 2014• 0 citations
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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate deterministic optical writing of a quantum dot-confined dark exciton, in a pure quantum state using one optical pulse. We then control the spin state of this long-lived exciton using picosecond optical pulses.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2014.ff1a.5

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