Journal
NANO LETTERS
Volume 20, Issue 5, Pages 3688-3693Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00607
Keywords
quantum dot; nanowire; single-photon source; multiplexing
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Canadian Space Agency
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Photonics-based quantum information technologies require efficient, high emission rate sources of single photons. Position-controlled quantum dots embedded within a broadband nanowire waveguide provide a fully scalable route to fabricating highly efficient single-photon sources. However, emission rates for single-photon devices are limited by radiative recombination lifetimes. Here, we demonstrate a multiplexed single-photon source based on a multidot nanowire. Using epitaxially grown nanowires, we incorporate multiple energy-tuned dots, each optimally positioned within the nanowire waveguide, providing single photons with high efficiency. This linear scaling of the single-photon emission rate with number of emitters is demonstrated using a five-dot nanowire with an average multiphoton emission probability of <4% when excited at saturation. This represents the first ever demonstration of multiple single-photon emitters deterministically incorporated in a single photonic device and is a major step toward achieving GHz single-photon emission rates from a scalable multi-quantum-dot system.
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