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DS 5: Nanophotonics - Theory of Nanophotonic Devices I
DS 5.2: Topical Talk
Monday, March 23, 2009, 11:45–12:15, GER 38
Photon statistics and time evolution of photon correlations in semiconductor microcavity lasers — •Jan Wiersig1, Christopher Gies2, and Frank Jahnke2 — 1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Magdeburg, 39016 Magdeburg — 2Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Bremen, 28334 Bremen
Nanophotonic devices made of semiconductor quantum dots coupled to microcavities have a variety of potential applications including ultra-low threshold lasers and single-photon sources. In this talk we discuss a microscopic theory for the photon correlation functions g(1)(τ) and g(2)(τ) describing the first and second-order coherence of semiconductor quantum-dot-based microcavity lasers [1,2]. Our theory predicts interesting and unexpected decay properties of the correlation functions. We explain these findings and compare them to recent experiments [3-5].
[1] C. Gies, J. Wiersig, M. Lorke, and F. Jahnke, Phys. Rev. A 75, 013803 (2007).
[2] C. Gies, J. Wiersig, and F. Jahnke, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 067401 (2008).
[3] S.M. Ulrich et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 043906 (2007).
[4] S. Ates et al., Phys. Rev. B 78, 155319 (2008).
[5] J. Wiersig et al., submitted (2008).