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Ultrafast all-optical switching with a single quantum dot

Abstract

We demonstrate all-optical switching based on a single quantum dot coupled to a photonic crystal cavity. The quantum-dot mediated interaction between the signal and control beams occurs at the single-photon level.

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© 2008 Optical Society of America. Date of Current Version: 28 August 2009. Financial support was provided by the ONR Young Investigator Award and MURI Center for photonic quantum information systems (ARO/DTO Program), the Presidential Early Career Science and Engineering Award (PECASE), and the DARPA Young Faculty Award. Work was performed in part at the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility of NNIN supported by the NSF. We thank Nick Stoltz and Pierre Petroff of UC Santa Barbara for QD material.

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Office of Naval Research (ONR
Army Research Office (ARO)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
NSF

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2012-09-14
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