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Reimer ME, Bulgarini G, Akopian N, et al. Bright single-photon sources in bottom-up tailored nanowires. Nat Commun. 2012;3:737doi: 10.1038/ncomms1746.
Reimer, M. E., Bulgarini, G., Akopian, N., Hocevar, M., Bavinck, M. B., Verheijen, M. A., Bakkers, E. P., Kouwenhoven, L. P., & Zwiller, V. (2012). Bright single-photon sources in bottom-up tailored nanowires. Nature communications, 3737. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1746
Reimer, Michael E, et al. "Bright single-photon sources in bottom-up tailored nanowires." Nature communications vol. 3 (2012): 737. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1746
Reimer ME, Bulgarini G, Akopian N, Hocevar M, Bavinck MB, Verheijen MA, Bakkers EP, Kouwenhoven LP, Zwiller V. Bright single-photon sources in bottom-up tailored nanowires. Nat Commun. 2012 Mar 13;3:737. doi: 10.1038/ncomms1746. PMID: 22415828; PMCID: PMC3317500.
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Nat Commun. 2012 Mar 13;3:737. doi: 10.1038/ncomms1746.

Bright single-photon sources in bottom-up tailored nanowires.

Nature communications

Michael E Reimer, Gabriele Bulgarini, Nika Akopian, Moïra Hocevar, Maaike Bouwes Bavinck, Marcel A Verheijen, Erik P A M Bakkers, Leo P Kouwenhoven, Val Zwiller

Affiliations

  1. Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands. [email protected]

PMID: 22415828 PMCID: PMC3317500 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1746

Abstract

The ability to achieve near-unity light-extraction efficiency is necessary for a truly deterministic single-photon source. The most promising method to reach such high efficiencies is based on embedding single-photon emitters in tapered photonic waveguides defined by top-down etching techniques. However, light-extraction efficiencies in current top-down approaches are limited by fabrication imperfections and etching-induced defects. The efficiency is further tempered by randomly positioned off-axis quantum emitters. Here we present perfectly positioned single quantum dots on the axis of a tailored nanowire waveguide using bottom-up growth. In comparison to quantum dots in nanowires without waveguides, we demonstrate a 24-fold enhancement in the single-photon flux, corresponding to a light-extraction efficiency of 42%. Such high efficiencies in one-dimensional nanowires are promising to transfer quantum information over large distances between remote stationary qubits using flying qubits within the same nanowire p-n junction.

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