Thursday, December 13, 2018 1:00 pm
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1:00 pm
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Candidate: Nachiket Sherlekar
Title: A model to optimize the brightness of a nanowire quantum dot emitter.
Date: December 13, 2018
Time: 1:00
Place: EIT 3151-3153
Supervisor(s): Reimer, Michael M.E.
Abstract:
A bright, deterministic source of single photons can be obtained by optically exciting a semiconductor quantum dot embedded inside a tapered nanowire waveguide. A finite-difference time-domain model of this optically-driven source yielded optimized architectural parameters to obtain a high transmission efficiency and a circular Gaussian far-field emission profile. An additional model of a gated nanowire source examined the effect of the surrounding structures on the emission properties of the source.