Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2010-11-25
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
9 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) provide an essential link between light and matter in emerging fields such as light-harvesting, all-solid-state quantum communication, and quantum computing. QDs are excellent single-photon sources and can store quantum bits for extended periods making them promising interconnects between light and matter in integrated quantum information networks. To this end the light-matter interaction strength must be strongly enhanced using nanophotonic structures such as photonic crystal cavities and waveguides or plasmonic nanowires. So far it has been assumed that QDs can be treated just like atomic photon emitters where the spatial properties of the wavefunction can be safely ignored. Here we demonstrate that the point-emitter description for QDs near plasmonic nanostructures breaks down. We observe that the QDs can excite plasmons eight times more efficiently depending on their orientation due to their mesoscopic character. Either enhancement or suppresion of the rate of plasmon excitation is observed depending on the geometry of the plasmonic nanostructure in full agreement with a new theory. This discovery has no equivalence in atomic systems and paves the way for novel nanophotonic devices that exploit the extended size of QDs as a resource for increasing the light-matter interaction strength.
Andersen Mads Lykke
Lodahl Peter
Stobbe Søren
Sørensen Anders Søndberg
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