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Aluminum nitride is a technologically important wide bandgap semiconductor which has been shown to host bright quantum emitters. In this paper, we probe the photodynamics of quantum emitters in aluminum nitride using photon emission…
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Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) enable miniaturization of optical quantum circuits because several optic and electronic functionalities can be added on the same chip. Single photon emitters (SPEs) are central building blocks for such…
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The study of spontaneously induced nonclassicality as a result of the interaction of an ensemble of two-level emitters embedded onto crystal structure embodying photonic band gap (PBG) is presented. The method of coherent-state propagator…