• DocumentCode
    3191286
  • 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
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    22-27 June 2003
  • Firstpage
    407
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics Conference, 2003. EQEC '03. European
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7733-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EQEC.2003.1314265
  • Filename
    1314265