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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Near lifetime-limited emitter in a nanophotonic waveguide

Henri Thyrrestrup, Gabija Kiršanskė, Hanna Le Jeannic, Tommaso Pregnolato, L. Zhai, Leonardo Midolo, Nir Rotenberg, Alisa Javadi, Rüdiger Schott, Andreas Dirk Wieck, Arne Ludwig, Matthias C. Löbl, Immo Söllner, Richard John Warburton, Peter Lodahl

Published Jan 1, 2018• 0 citations
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Abstract

Coherent light-matter interactions are key to a range of quantum optical technologies and experiments. We present measurements showing near-life-time limited transitions, for quantum dots embedded in nanoguides, demonstrating the robust suppression of environmental decoherence processes.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2018.fm1h.7

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