We show that the epitaxial growth of thin layers of AlGaAs on Ge and Si substrates allows to obtain single photon sources by exploiting the sparse and unintentional contamination with acceptors of the AlGaAs. Very bright and sharp single photoluminescence lines are observed in confocal microscopy. These lines behave very much as single excitons in quantum dots, but their implementation is by far much easier, since it does not require 3D nucleation. The photon antibunching is demonstrated by time resolved Hanbury Brown and Twiss measurements.
Single photon emission from impurity centers in AlGaAs epilayers on Ge and Si substrates / S. Minari; L. Cavigli; F. Sarti; M. Abbarchi; N. Accanto; G. Munoz Matutano; S. Bietti;S. Sanguinetti; A. Vinattieri; M. Gurioli. - In: APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS. - ISSN 0003-6951. - STAMPA. - 101:(2012), pp. 172105-1-172105-4. [10.1063/1.4761939]
Single photon emission from impurity centers in AlGaAs epilayers on Ge and Si substrates
CAVIGLI, LUCIA;SARTI, FRANCESCO;ABBARCHI, MARCO;VINATTIERI, ANNA;GURIOLI, MASSIMO
2012
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We show that the epitaxial growth of thin layers of AlGaAs on Ge and Si substrates allows to obtain single photon sources by exploiting the sparse and unintentional contamination with acceptors of the AlGaAs. Very bright and sharp single photoluminescence lines are observed in confocal microscopy. These lines behave very much as single excitons in quantum dots, but their implementation is by far much easier, since it does not require 3D nucleation. The photon antibunching is demonstrated by time resolved Hanbury Brown and Twiss measurements.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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