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Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 067401 (2005) [4 pages]

Exciton-Photon Strong-Coupling Regime for a Single Quantum Dot Embedded in a Microcavity

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E. Peter1,*, P. Senellart1, D. Martrou1, A. Lemaître1, J. Hours1, J. M. Gérard2, and J. Bloch1
1Laboratoire de Photonique et Nanostructures, LPN/CNRS, Route de Nozay, 91460 Marcoussis, France
2CEA/DRFMC/SP2M, Nanophysics and Semiconductor Laboratory, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex, France

Received 7 November 2004; published 1 August 2005

We report on the observation of the strong-coupling regime between the excitonic transition of a single GaAs quantum dot and a discrete optical mode of a microdisk microcavity. Photoluminescence is performed at various temperatures to tune the quantum dot exciton with respect to the optical mode. At resonance, we observe a clear anticrossing behavior, signature of the strong-coupling regime. The vacuum Rabi splitting amounts to 400  μeV and is twice as large as the individual linewidths.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.067401
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.067401
PACS:
78.67.Hc, 78.55.Cr, 78.90.+t

*Electronic address: emmanuelle.peter@lpn.cnrs.fr