Resonance fluorescence of a site-controlled quantum dot realized by the buried-stressor growth technique

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that the buried-stressor growth technique can produce high-quality, site-controlled quantum dots with excellent optical properties, enabling advanced quantum optical experiments such as resonance fluorescence and single-photon emission.

Contribution

The study introduces the buried-stressor growth method as a means to achieve high-quality, site-controlled quantum dots with superior optical and quantum optical properties.

Findings

Quantum dots exhibit emission linewidths down to 10 μeV.

Resonant excitation reveals the Mollow triplet under CW excitation.

Single-photon emission with g^{(2)}(0)=0.12 was achieved.

Abstract

Site-controlled growth of semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) represents a major advancement to achieve scalable quantum technology platforms. One immediate benefit is the deterministic integration of quantum emitters into optical microcavities. However, site-controlled growth of QDs is usually achieved at the cost of reduced optical quality. Here, we show that the buried-stressor growth technique enables the realization of high-quality site-controlled QDs with attractive optical and quantum optical properties. This is evidenced by performing excitation power dependent resonance fluorescence experiments at cryogenic temperatures showing QD emission linewidths down to 10 $\mu$eV. Resonant excitation leads to the observation of the Mollow triplet under CW excitation and enables coherent state preparation under pulsed excitation. Under resonant $\pi$-pulse excitation we observe clean single photon emission associated with $g^{(2)}(0)=0.12$ limited by non-ideal laser suppression.