Electrical control of the uncertainty in the time of single photon emission events

We report that with appropriate voltage biasing it is possible to reduce the uncertainty in the time at which photons are emitted from a single quantum dot by an arbitrary factor. Using a resonant cavity light-emitting diode, we reduce the photon emission time jitter to one-fifth of the radiative lifetime. This enables us to demonstrate single-photon emission at a repetition rate of 1.07 GHz from both the exciton and biexciton states. This idea may lead to a new method by which pairs of indistinguishable photons can be generated for photonic quantum logic experiments.