Self-homodyne enabled generation of indistinguishable photons

The rapid generation of non-classical light serves as the foundation for exploring quantum optics and developing applications such as secure communication or generation of NOON-states. While strongly coupled quantum dot-photonic crystal resonator systems have great potential as non-classical light s...

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Müller, Kai, Fischer, Kevin A, Dory, Constantin, Sarmiento, Tomas, Lagoudakis, Konstantinos G, Rundquist, Armand, Kelaita, Yousif A, Vučković, Jelena
Format Paper Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 20.09.2016
Subjects
Light sources
Photon emission
Photonic crystals
Photons
Physics - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Physics - Optics
Physics - Quantum Physics
Quantum dots
Quantum optics
Quantum phenomena
Quantum statistics
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Summary:The rapid generation of non-classical light serves as the foundation for exploring quantum optics and developing applications such as secure communication or generation of NOON-states. While strongly coupled quantum dot-photonic crystal resonator systems have great potential as non-classical light sources due to their promise of tailored output statistics, the generation of indistinguishable photons has been obscured due to the strongly dissipative nature of such systems. Here, we demonstrate that the recently discovered self-homodyne suppression technique can be used to overcome this limitation and tune the quantum statistics of transmitted light, achieving indistinguishable photon emission competitive with state-of-the-art metrics. Furthermore, our nanocavity-based platform directly lends itself to scalable on-chip architectures for quantum information.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1512.05626