Universal Growth Scheme for Quantum Dots with Low Fine-Structure Splitting at Various Emission Wavelengths

作者：Skiba Szymanska Joanna^*; Stevenson R Mark; Varnava Christiana; Felle Martin; Huwer Jan; Muller Tina; Bennett Anthony J; Lee James P; Farrer Ian; Krysa Andrey B; Spencer Peter; Goff Lucy E; Ritchie David A; Heffernan Jon; Shields Andrew J

来源：Physical Review Applied, 2017, 8(1): 014013.

DOI：10.1103/PhysRevApplied.8.014013

Efficient sources of individual pairs of entangled photons are required for quantum networks to operate using fiber-optic infrastructure. Entangled light can be generated by quantum dots (QDs) with naturally small fine-structure splitting (FSS) between exciton eigenstates. Moreover, QDs can be engineered to emit at standard telecom wavelengths. To achieve sufficient signal intensity for applications, QDs have been incorporated into one-dimensional optical microcavities. However, combining these properties in a single device has so far proved elusive. Here, we introduce a growth strategy to realize QDs with small FSS in the conventional telecom band, and within an optical cavity. Our approach employs "droplet-epitaxy'' of InAs quantum dots on (001) substrates. We show the scheme improves the symmetry of the dots by 72%. Furthermore, our technique is universal, and produces low FSS QDs by molecular beam epitaxy on GaAs emitting at similar to 900 nm, and metal-organic vapor-phase epitaxy on InP emitting at similar to 1550 nm, with mean FSS 4x smaller than for Stranski-Krastanow QDs.

• 出版日期2017-7-14