1. Quantum dots as single-photon sources: Antibunching via two-photon excitation
- Author
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Uli Lemmer, Matthias D. Wissert, Birgit Rudat, and Hans-Jürgen Eisler
- Subjects
Physics ,Photon ,Photon antibunching ,Quantum point contact ,Physics::Optics ,Photodetection ,Condensed Matter::Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials ,Condensed Matter::Materials Science ,Two-photon excitation microscopy ,Quantum dot ,Quantum dot laser ,Quantum information ,Atomic physics - Abstract
Two-photon excitation induced photoluminescence (2PE-PL) microscopy of CdSe colloidal quantum dots at the single-entity level is demonstrated. We provide evidence for single nanoparticle microscopy in the two-photon excitation regime by varying the laser excitation average power, as well as by measuring the confocal point spread function in three dimensions with a single quantum dot. Model calculations of the point spread function are in good agreement with our experimental findings in the 2PE-PL nonsaturation regime. Ultimately, we observe photon antibunching and triggered single-photon emission at room temperature from those quantum nanostructures under two-photon excitation in a well-defined three-dimensional photonic volume.
- Published
- 2011