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HL: Fachverband Halbleiterphysik

HL 57: Photonic Crystals II

HL 57.4: Talk

Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 12:45–13:00, EW 202

Light-Mediated Coupling of a Single QD Coupled to Strongly Interacting Planar Photonic Crystal Cavities — •Stefan Declair, Torsten Meier, and Jens Förstner — University of Paderborn, Department of Physics and CeOPP, Warburger Str. 100, D-33098 Paderborn, Germany

We numerically investigate the light-mediated coupling between a semiconductor heterostructure, a quantum dot (QD), and strongly interacting planar photonic crystal cavities (PhCCs) using a Finite-Difference Time-Domain method. The light-matter Hamiltonian is used to calculate the macroscopic polarization via dynamic equations of motion for the interband coherence and density of the QD [1].
The photonic system consists of two strongly interacting L3 cavities with an optimized Q-factor [2], exhibiting an asymmetric line splitting of >600 GHz [3]. Resonant coupling of a QD (phenomenological dephasing rate in the GHz regime) to one photonic eigenmode of the coupled PhCC system leads to emission of the QD on the other photonic eigenmode with a strong coupling signature (normal mode splitting).
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