Deterministic emitter-cavity coupling using a single-site controlled quantum dot

Abstract

Site-selective epitaxy is used to deterministically control the nucleation site of a single quantum dot. A photonic crystal cavity is fabricated at the dot site for a true single quantum dot-cavity system which, by design, contains no background emitters. Cavity tuning at fixed temperature is used to measure the dot-cavity coupling over a large (>15 meV) detuning range using nonresonant excitation. The low-excitation spectra are modeled using a master equation model based on incoherent excitation. We find that pure phonon dephasing alone does not account for the observed nonresonant cavity emission and an additional cavity feeding mechanism, consistent with phonon-assisted dot-cavity coupling, must be included to reproduce the experimental spectra. © 2010 The American Physical Society.