Electrically pumped, micro-cavity based single photon source driven at 1 GHz

A. Lochmann, E. Stock, Jan Amaru Töfflinger, W. Unrau, A. I. Toropov, A. K. Bakarov, V. A. Haisler, D. Bimberg

Electronics Letters · 2009 · 44 citations · 11 references

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Abstract

A resonant cavity light emitting diode combined with a submicron oxide current aperture, to pump individual InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots electrically, has been designed and fabricated. Pulsed correlation measurements demonstrated true single photon emission with g2(0)=0 at a rate of 1 GHz.

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