Nature Communications (May 2016)

Giant photon bunching, superradiant pulse emission and excitation trapping in quantum-dot nanolasers

  • Frank Jahnke,
  • Christopher Gies,
  • Marc Aßmann,
  • Manfred Bayer,
  • H. A. M. Leymann,
  • Alexander Foerster,
  • Jan Wiersig,
  • Christian Schneider,
  • Martin Kamp,
  • Sven Höfling

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11540
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Classical light sources are characterized by their intensity and coherence, whereas quantum light sources are described by photon correlations. Here, the authors provide a connection between the two for the case of superradiant emission from quantum dots in a nanolaser.