Published March 2, 2012
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Ultrafast Photon-Photon Interaction in a Strongly Coupled Quantum Dot-Cavity System
Abstract
We study dynamics of the interaction between two weak light beams mediated by a strongly coupled quantum dot–photonic crystal cavity system. First, we perform all-optical switching of a weak continuous-wave signal with a pulsed control beam, and then perform switching between two weak pulsed beams (40 ps pulses). Our results show that the quantum dot–nanocavity system enables fast, controllable optical switching at the single-photon level.
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© 2012 American Physical Society. Received 15 July 2011; revised manuscript received 28 December 2011; published 2 March 2012. Financial support was provided by the Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation, and Army Research Office. A. M. was supported by the SGF. Work was performed in part at the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility of NNIN supported by the National Science Foundation. D. E. acknowledges support by the Sloan Foundation and by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program, AFOSR Grant No. FA9550-11-1-0014, supervised by Dr. Gernot Pomrenke. J. Vuckovic would also like to acknowledge support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.Attached Files
Published - PhysRevLett.108.093604.pdf
Supplemental Material - 110514_X-switch-3_PRL_v2_suppl.pdf
Supplemental Material - README.TXT
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- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
- NSF
- Army Research Office (ARO)
- SGF
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- FA9550-11-1-0014
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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