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原子云作为量子点单光子的光谱选择性可调谐延迟线

Atomic Clouds as Spectrally-Selective and Tunable Delay Lines for Single Photons from Quantum Dots

Johannes S. Wildmann, Rinaldo Trotta, Javier Martín-Sánchez, Eugenio Zallo, Oliver G. Schmidt, Armando Rastelli

摘要:

我们展示了一个紧凑的,光谱选择性,和可调延迟线的量子点发射的单光子。这是通过将这种“人造原子”的光学跃迁的波长微调到一个光谱窗口中来实现的,在这个光谱窗口中,自然原子云表现为慢光介质。采用InGaAs/GaAs量子点中基态精细结构分裂激子作为不同频率的单光子源,Cs蒸气的超精细结构分裂$D_1$跃迁作为可调延迟介质,在7.5 cm长的路径上,对相距仅60 μeV(14.5 GHz)的光子实现了2.4 ns的差分延迟.为了定量地解释实验数据,我们开发了一个理论模型,占量子点发射线的非均匀加宽和原子线的多普勒加宽。我们在这里提出的概念可以用来实现时间重排操作,旨在擦除“哪条路径”的信息,恶化纠缠光子发射的激子与有限的精细结构分裂。

英文摘要:

We demonstrate a compact, spectrally-selective, and tunable delay line for single photons emitted by quantum dots. This is achieved by fine-tuning the wavelength of the optical transitions of such "artificial atoms" into a spectral window in which a cloud of natural atoms behaves as slow-light medium. By employing the ground-state fine-structure-split exciton confined in an InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot as a source of single photons at different frequencies and the hyperfine-structure-split $D_1$ transition of Cs-vapors as a tunable delay-medium, we achieve a differential delay of up 2.4 ns on a 7.5 cm long path for photons that are only 60 μeV (14.5 GHz) apart. To quantitatively explain the experimental data we develop a theoretical model that accounts for both the inhomogeneously broadening of the quantum-dot emission lines and the Doppler-broadening of the atomic lines. The concept we proposed here may be used to implement time-reordering operations aimed at erasing the "which-path" information that deteriorates entangled-photon emission from excitons with finite fine-structure-splitting.

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