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Laser driving scheme for solid-state emitters using engineered optical pulses

Kimberley C. Hall, Grant R. Wilbur, Ali Binai-Motlagh, Alison Clarke, Ajan P. Ramachandran, Nick Milson, John Healey, Sabine O’Neal, DENNIS GLENN DEPPE

Published Jul 19, 2023• 0 citations
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Abstract

In this presentation I will describe a new laser driving scheme for triggered high-brightness single photon emitters using a chirped laser pulse possessing a spectral hole resonant with the transition energy of the emitter, referred to as Notch-filtered adiabatic rapid passage (NARP). When combined with optimized photonic structures for enhanced collection efficiency and commercial filters we estimate that NARP would provide less than 10-8 scattered photons per emitted photon with a 4% detection loss together with resonant driving for high photon indistinguishability. We demonstrate inversion using NARP experimentally in a single semiconductor QD.

DOI
10.1117/12.2672235

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