Title :
Individual CdSe nanocrystals as single photon sources
Author :
Hermier, J.-P. ; Rezus, Y. ; Dahan, Maytal ; Giacobino, E. ; Rigneault, Herve
Author_Institution :
Departement de Physique, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
Abstract :
The study reports on the demonstration of individual CdSe nanocrystals in generating single photons under cw or pulsed excitation. Collection efficiency of the nanocrystals fluorescence emission is observed to increase with a dielectric mirror.
Keywords :
II-VI semiconductors; cadmium compounds; fluorescence; mirrors; nanostructured materials; optical pumping; quantum cryptography; quantum optics; CdSe; CdSe nanocrystals; collection efficiency; cw excitation; dielectric mirror; fluorescence emission; pulsed excitation; single photon sources; Frequency conversion; Geometry; Photonics; Signal generators;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics Conference, 2003. EQEC '03. European
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7733-8
DOI :
10.1109/EQEC.2003.1314265