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Opt Express. 2021 Mar 01;29(5):6582-6598. doi: 10.1364/OE.415979.

Design optimization for bright electrically-driven quantum dot single-photon sources emitting in telecom O-band.

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S A Blokhin, M A Bobrov, N A Maleev, J N Donges, L Bremer, A A Blokhin, A P Vasil'ev, A G Kuzmenkov, E S Kolodeznyi, V A Shchukin, N N Ledentsov, S Reitzenstein, V M Ustinov

PMID: 33726176 DOI: 10.1364/OE.415979

Abstract

A combination of advanced light engineering concepts enables a substantial improvement in photon extraction efficiency of micro-cavity-based single-photon sources in the telecom O-band at ∼1.3 µm. We employ a broadband bottom distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) and a top DBR formed in a dielectric micropillar with an additional circular Bragg grating in the lateral plane. This device design includes a doped layer in pin-configuration to allow for electric carrier injection. It provides broadband (∼8-10 nm) emission enhancement with an overall photon-extraction efficiency of ∼83% into the upper hemisphere and photon-extraction efficiency of ∼79% within numerical aperture NA=0.7. The efficiency of photon coupling to a single-mode fiber reaches 11% for SMF28 fiber (with NA=0.12), exceeds 22% for 980HP fiber (with NA=0.2) and reaches ∼40% for HNA fiber (with NA=0.42) as demonstrated by 3D finite-difference time-domain modeling.

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