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Antireflective photonic structure for coherent nonlinear spectroscopy of single magnetic quantum dots

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2017-03-24 v1

Abstract

This work presents epitaxial growth and optical spectroscopy of CdTe quantum dots (QDs) in (Cd,Zn,Mg)Te barriers placed on the top of (Cd,Zn,Mg)Te distributed Bragg reflector. The formed photonic mode in our half-cavity structure permits to enhance the local excitation intensity and extraction efficiency of the QD photoluminescence, while suppressing the reflectance within the spectral range covering the QD transitions. This allows to perform coherent, nonlinear, resonant spectroscopy of individual QDs. The coherence dynamics of a charged exciton is measured via four-wave mixing, with the estimated dephasing time T2=(210±40)T_2=(210\,\pm\,40) ps. The same structure contains QDs doped with single Mn2+^{2+} ions, as detected in photoluminescence spectra. Our work therefore paves the way toward investigating and controlling an exciton coherence coupled, via ss,pp-dd exchange interaction, with an individual spin of a magnetic dopant.

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@article{arxiv.1703.08062,
  title  = {Antireflective photonic structure for coherent nonlinear spectroscopy of single magnetic quantum dots},
  author = {W. Pacuski and J. -G. Rousset and V. Delmonte and T. Jakubczyk and K. Sobczak and J. Borysiuk and K. Sawicki and E. Janik and J. Kasprzak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.08062},
  year   = {2017}
}

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6 pages, 5 figures