Tailoring the properties of quantum dot-micropillars by ultrafast optical injection of free charge carriers

Emanuel Peinke; Tobias Sattler; Guilherme M. Torelly; Patricia L. Souza; Sylvain Perret; Joël Bleuse; Julien Claudon; Willem L. Vos; Jean-Michel Gérard

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- Tailoring the properties of quantum dot-micropillars by ultrafast optical injection of free charge carriers
- Tailoring the properties of quantum dot-micropillars by ultrafast optical injection of free charge carriers
- LSA 2021年10卷第11期页码：2083-2097
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  1.Université Grenoble Alpes, CEA, IRIG-PHELIQS, "Nanophysique et Semiconducteurs" group, F-38000, Grenoble, France
  2.LabSem-CETUC, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 22451-900, Brazil
  3.Complex Photonic Systems (COPS), MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, the Netherlands
- Author bio：
  
  Jean-Michel Gérard (jean-michel.gerard@cea.fr)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-021-00654-y
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- 纸质出版日期：2021-11-30，
  
  网络出版日期：2021-10-19，
  
  收稿日期：2021-02-05，
  
  修回日期：2021-09-06，
  
  录用日期：2021-09-12
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Tailoring the properties of quantum dot-micropillars by ultrafast optical injection of free charge carriers[J]. LSA, 2021,10(11):2083-2097.

Peinke, E. et al. Tailoring the properties of quantum dot-micropillars by ultrafast optical injection of free charge carriers. Light: Science & Applications, 10, 2083-2097 (2021).
Tailoring the properties of quantum dot-micropillars by ultrafast optical injection of free charge carriers[J]. LSA, 2021,10(11):2083-2097. DOI： 10.1038/s41377-021-00654-y.

Peinke, E. et al. Tailoring the properties of quantum dot-micropillars by ultrafast optical injection of free charge carriers. Light: Science & Applications, 10, 2083-2097 (2021). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-021-00654-y.

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We review recent studies of cavity switching induced by the optical injection of free carriers in micropillar cavities containing quantum dots. Using the quantum dots as a broadband internal light source and a streak camera as detector

we track the resonance frequencies for a large set of modes with picosecond time resolution. We report a record-fast switch-on time constant (1.5 ps) and observe major transient modifications of the modal structure of the micropillar on the 10 ps time scale: mode crossings are induced by a focused symmetric injection of free carriers

while a lifting of several mode degeneracies is observed when off-axis injection breaks the rotational symmetry of the micropillar. We show theoretically and experimentally that cavity switching can be used to tailor the dynamic properties of the coupled QD–cavity system. We report the generation of ultrashort spontaneous emission pulses (as short as 6 ps duration) by a collection of frequency-selected QDs in a switched pillar microcavity. These pulses display a very small coherence length

attractive for ultrafast speckle-free imaging. Moreover

the control of QD-mode coupling on the 10 ps time scale establishes cavity switching as an appealing resource for quantum photonics.

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