1204.6153 (Ramachandrarao Yalla et al.)

Efficient channeling of fluorescence photons from single quantum dots
into guided modes of optical nanofiber    [PDF]

Ramachandrarao Yalla, Fam Le Kien, M. Morinaga, K. Hakuta

We experimentally demonstrate the efficient channeling of fluorescence photons from single q-dots on optical nanofiber into the guided modes, by measuring the photon-count rates through the guided and radiation modes simultaneously. We obtain the maximum channeling efficiency to be 22.0 (\pm4.8)% at fiber diameter of 350 nm for the emission wavelength of 780 nm. The results may open new possibilities in quantum information technologies for generating single photons into single-mode optical-fibers.

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