单量子点光谱与激子动力学研究进展

胶体半导体量子点具有宽带吸收、窄带发射、发光量子产率高、发射波长连续可调等优点,是制备发光二极管、太阳能电池、探测器、激光器等光电器件的优质材料.单量子点光谱能够消除系综平均效应,可以在单粒子水平上获取量子点材料的结构和动力学信息及与其他材料间的电荷、能量转移动力学等.相关研究结果能够指引量子点材料的设计和为量子点的相关应用提供机理基础.另外基于单量子点可以开展纳米尺度上光与物质的相互作用研究,制备单光子源和纠缠光子源等.本文综述了单量子点光谱与激子动力学近期的相关研究进展,主要包括单量子点的光致发光闪烁特性和调控方式、单激子和多激子动力学研究及双激子辐射特性的调控等.最后简要地讨论了单量子点光谱未来可能的发展趋势.     

InAs 单量子点中级联辐射光子的关联测量

利用分子束外延生长InAs单量子点样品,温度为5 K时,测量了单量子点中单、双激子自发辐射的荧光(PL)光谱.研究了单、双激子发光强度随激发功率的变化及对应发光峰的偏振特性和精细结构劈裂.基于Hanbury-Brown Twiss(HBT) 实验,测量了单、双激子间发光光谱的关联函数,证实了其发光过程为级联发射过程. 关键词： InAs 单量子点 单、双激子 荧光光谱 级联辐射     

InAs 单量子点精细结构光谱

在5 K下,采用光致发光光谱和时间分辨光谱研究了不同单量子点的精细结构和对应发光光谱的偏振性、单激子/双激子发光光谱和相应发光动力学。给出InAs单量子点发光光谱所对应能级的精细结构及激子本征态的偏振特性。当精细结构能级劈裂为零时, 激子的本征态为简并的圆偏振态。而当精细结构能级劈裂大于零时,一般在几十到几百μeV,激子的本征态为非简并的线偏振态。相对于单激子发光寿命,激子-激子间的散射使单激子的复合发光寿命减小。     

电场调谐InAs单量子点的发光光谱

采用稳态和时间分辨发光光谱,研究了生长在p-i-n二极管结构内的InAs单量子点发光光谱的电场调谐特性.随着电场强度的增加,观察到量子点中激子发光的Stark 效应.通过选择不同波长的激光线激发量子点样品,发现随着电场强度的增加导致量子点发光强度的减弱,这是由于量子点俘获载流子概率的减小所致,而激子寿命的增加源于电场导致激子的Stark效应. 关键词： InAs单量子点 Stark效应 电子-空穴分离     

激子自旋弛豫对简并量子点发射光子对纠缠度的影响

利用粒子数运动方程和量子回归理论，计算了单个半导体量子点双激子体系脉冲激发下粒子在各能级间辐射跃迁的二阶交叉相关函数以及系统发射光子对的偏振密度矩阵.分析了激子态能级简并量子点体系发射光子对偏振纠缠特性，讨论了纠缠度随激子态间自旋弛豫的变化关系.研究表明，激子自旋弛豫会破坏该系统发射光子对的纠缠度. 关键词： 纠缠光子对 半导体量子点 二阶相关函数     

CdTe量子点的室温激子自旋弛豫动力学

利用交叉偏振三阶非线性瞬态光栅技术,研究了室温下CdTe胶体量子点激子自旋弛豫动力学的尺寸效应.在抽运-探测光子能量与CdTe量子点的最低激子吸收(1Se—1Sh)跃迁相共振时,量子点激子自旋弛豫显示了时间常数为0.1—0.5 ps的单指数衰减行为.CdTe量子点激子自旋的快速弛豫源于亮暗激子精细结构态跃迁,即J=±1←→■2跃迁.激子自旋弛豫主要由空穴的自旋翻转过程决定.研究结果表明:CdTe量子点激子自旋弛豫速率与量子点尺寸的4次方成反比.     

金纳米颗粒调控量子点激子自发辐射速率

将InAs/GaAs量子点样品薄膜置于覆盖有直径为50 nm的金(Au)纳米颗粒的硅衬底上,可以调控量子点激子的自发辐射速率.实验发现,当量子点浸润层距离Au纳米颗粒表面15—35 nm时,激子自发辐射速率受到抑制,且距离为19 nm时抑制作用最大,导致量子点激子的自发辐射速率减小到没有Au纳米颗粒时自发辐射速率的10^-3.基于经典的偶极辐射模型模拟计算的激子自发辐射速率与实验结果一致.     

量子点单光子源及其制备方法研究进展

本文概述了量子保密通讯中面临的三大关键技术。并对关键技术之一的单光子源技术进行了重点介绍,如量子点作为单光子源的研究概况,单光子发射的实现、激子跃迁、双激子跃迁引起的聚束和反聚束效应和光子相关测量等。并介绍了国际上制备半导体自组装量子点在形貌、发光谱、极化以及近场光学用于量子点极化和激子发射等研究方面所取得的进展。     

亚单层InGaAs量子点-量子阱异质结构的时间分辨光致发光谱

测定了亚单层InGaAs/GaAs量子点-量子阱异质结构在5K下的时间分辨光致发光谱.亚单层量 子点的辐射寿命在500 ps 至 800 ps之间，随量子点尺寸的增大而增大，与量子点中激子的 较小的横向限制能以及激子从小量子点向大量子点的隧穿转移有关.光致发光上升时间强烈 依赖于激发强度密度.在弱激发强度密度下，上升时间为 35 ps，纵光学声子发射为主要的 载流子俘获机理.在强激发强度密度下，上升时间随激发强度密度的增加而减小，俄歇过程 为主要的载流子俘获机理.该结果对理解亚单层量子点器件的工作特性非常有用. 关键词： 亚单层 量子点-量子阱 时间分辨光致发光谱     

量子点单光子源及其制备方法研究进展

本文概述了量子保密通讯中面临的三大关键技术。并对关键技术之一的单光子源技术进行了重点介绍，如量子点作为单光子源的研究概况，单光子发射的实现、激子跃迁、双激子跃迁引起的聚束和反聚束效应和光子相关测量等。并介绍了国际上制备半导体自组装量子点在形貌、发光谱、极化以及近场光学用于量子点极化和激子发射等研究方面所取得的进展。     

Spontaneous emission of quantum dot excitons into surface plasmons in a nanowire

The spontaneous emission (SE) of quantum dot (QD) excitons into surface plasmons in a cylindrical nanowire is investigated theoretically. Maxwell's equations with appropriate boundary conditions are solved numerically to obtain the dispersion relations of surface plasmons. The SE rate of QD excitons is found to be greatly enhanced at certain values of the exciton bandgap. Application in generation of remote entangled states via superradiance is also pointed out and may be observable with current technology.     

Rabi oscillations of excitons in single quantum dots

Transient nonlinear optical spectroscopy, performed on excitons confined to single GaAs quantum dots, shows oscillations that are analogous to Rabi oscillations in two-level atomic systems. This demonstration corresponds to a one-qubit rotation in a single quantum dot which is important for proposals using quantum dot excitons for quantum computing. The dipole moment inferred from the data is consistent with that directly obtained from linear absorption studies. The measurement extends the artificial atom model of quantum dot excitonic transitions into the strong-field limit, and makes possible full coherent optical control of the quantum state of single excitons using optical pi pulses.     

Emission from neutral and charged excitons in a single quantum dot in a magnetic field

We report on optical spectroscopy of self-assembled InAs quantum dots in a magnetic field. We describe how we measure the emission characteristics of a single quantum dot (QD) in high magnetic fields at low temperature using a miniature, fiber-based confocal microscope. Example results are presented on a QD whose charge can be controlled using a field-effect device. For the uncharged, singly and doubly charged excitons we find a diamagnetism and the spin Zeeman effect. In contrast, for the triply-charged exciton we find a fundamentally different behavior. Anti-crossings in magnetic field imply that confined states of the QD are hybridized with Landau-like levels associated with the two-dimensional continuum.     

Magneto optics of single photons emitted from single InAs/GaAs self-assembled quantum dots in a planar microcavity

We fully characterize the fine spectral structure of neutral and negatively charged single microcavity quantum dot excitons, using polarization-sensitive magneto-photoluminescence spectroscopy. We show that the microcavity allows the simultaneous detection of both the bright and dark excitons using Faraday configuration. Thus, we were able to fully determine the fine structure and the g-factors of the neutral and negatively charged single exciton states within the same single quantum dot. Our measurements are in excellent agreement with novel, many carrier model calculations, which take into account Coulomb and exchange interactions among all the confined e–h pair states.     

Electrical control of hole spin relaxation in charge tunable InAs/GaAs quantum dots

We report on optical orientation of singly charged excitons (trions) in charge-tunable self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots. When the charge varies from 0 to -2, the trion photoluminescence of a single quantum dot shows up and under quasiresonant excitation gets progressively polarized from zero to approximately 100%. This behavior is interpreted as the electric control of the trion thermalization process, which subsequently acts on the hole-spin relaxation driven in nanosecond time scale by the anisotropic electron-hole exchange. This is supported by the excitation spectroscopy and time-resolved measurements of a quantum dot ensemble.     

Coherent photonic coupling of semiconductor quantum dots

We report a new type of coupling between quantum dot excitons mediated by the strong single-photon field in a high-finesse micropillar cavity. Coherent exciton coupling is observed for two dots with energy differences of the order of the exciton-photon coupling. The coherent coupling mode is characterized by an anticrossing with a particularly large line splitting of 250 microeV. Because of the different dispersion relations with temperature, the simultaneous photonic coupling of quantum dot excitons can be easily distinguished from cases of sequential strong coupling of two quantum dots.     

Enhancement of the Coulomb correlations in type-II quantum dots

We report on calculation of binding energies of excitons as well as positively and negatively charged excitons and biexcitons in type-II quantum dots. The shape of the GaSb/GaAs quantum dot is assumed lens-like and the energies are calculated within the Hartree–Fock approximation. A large enhancement of the binding energies has been estimated in comparison with the type-I quantum dots (InAs/GaAs) which is in good agreement with the recent experimental findings.     

Lifetime dispersion in a single quantum dot

We present a decay formula for photoluminescence of a single quantum dot. We apply the formula to time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) measurements for a single InAs/GaAs quantum dot. The formula works very well for the PL decays of excitons and biexcitons in the system. The physical basis of the formula originates from the temporal dispersion of lifetimes. PACS 78.67.Hc; 78.47.+p; 78.55.Cr; 71.35.-y     

Experimental demonstration of coherent coupling of two quantum dots

During the recent years semiconductor nanostructures have attracted considerable interest with respect to potential applications in quantum information processing. In particular, quantum dot molecules have been suggested to provide the building block of a quantum computer: forming quantum gates due to coherent coupling of two dots. The characteristic dependence of the splitting of ‘bonding’ and ‘anti-bonding’ states suggests coherent coupling of two InAs/GaAs quantum dots. Anti-crossings in the fine structure of excitons due to mixing of optically bright and dark states have been observed in Faraday configuration. In Voigt configuration the diamagnetic shift of the quantum dot molecule is enhanced compared to a single quantum dot. These findings altogether demonstrate the coherent coupling of exciton states in quantum dot molecules.     

Growth and time-resolved photoluminescence study of self-organized CdSe quantum dots in ZnSe

Employing two different growth methods: standard molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and low-temperature atomic layer epitaxy (ALE) with subsequent annealing, we have obtained high-quality quantum dot structures consisting of CdSe embedded in ZnSe. Single dot emission lines are observed in micro-luminescence. The samples have been investigated by further optical methods including time-resolved photoluminescence under resonant excitation at 4.2 K. Distinct properties of systems with three-dimensional confinement are observed such as the suppression of the interaction between isolated quantum dots (QDs). In standard quantum wells tunneling/hopping processes generally lead to a pronounced red shift of the luminescence over time due to a lateral localization of excitons in potential fluctuations. A much less pronounced red shift is observed for the QDs reflecting only the different lifetimes of single dots and higher excited states. The red shift completely vanishes under resonant excitation that selectively excites only a few QDs of the ensemble in the layer. Typical behaviour is also observed from the halfwidth of the quantum dot emission.