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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Photon Statistics of Filtered Quantum Dot Resonance Fluorescence

Catherine L. Phillips, Alistair J. Brash, Dara P. S. McCutcheon, Jake Iles-Smith, Maurice S. Skolnick, A. M. Fox, Ahsan Nazir

Published Jan 1, 2021• 0 citations
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Abstract

We exploit spectral filtering to modify the photon statistics of resonance fluorescence from a quantum dot, demonstrating that the observed antibunching is an interference effect and cannot be measured simultaneously with a sub-natural linewidth.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2021.fth4m.5

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