Pulse shaping for on-demand emission of single Raman photons from a quantum-dot biexciton
arXiv:2104.13781 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.105.045302
Abstract
Semiconductor quantum dots embedded in optical cavities are promising on-demand sources of single photons. Here, we theoretically study single photon emission from an optically driven two-photon Raman transition between the biexciton and the ground state of a quantum dot. The advantage of this process is that it allows all-optical control of the properties of the emitted single photon with a laser pulse. However, with the presence of other decay channels and excitation-induced quantum interference, on-demand emission of the single Raman photon is generally difficult to achieve. Here we show that laser pulses with non-trivial shapes can be used to maintain excitation conditions for which with increasing pulse intensities the on-demand regime is reached. To provide a realistic picture of the achievable system performance, we include phonon-mediated processes in the theoretical caluclations. While preserving both high photon purity and indistinguishability, we find that although based on a higher-order emission process, for realistic system parameters on-demand Raman photon emission is indeed achievable with suitably tailored laser pulses.
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