Correlations between Cascaded Photons from Spatially Localized Biexcitons in ZnSe.

Pettit, Robert M; Karasahin, Aziz; von den Driesch, Nils; Jansen, Marvin Marco; Pawlis, Alexander; Waks, Edo · Nano Lett · 2022

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Radiative cascades emit correlated photon pairs, providing a pathway for the generation of entangled photons. The realization of a radiative cascade with impurity atoms in semiconductors, a leading platform for the generation of quantum light, would therefore provide a new avenue for the development of entangled photon pair sources. Here we demonstrate a radiative cascade from the decay of a biexciton at an impurity-atom complex in a ZnSe quantum well. The emitted photons show clear temporal correlations revealing the time-ordering of the cascade. Our result establishes impurity atoms in ZnSe as a potential platform for photonic quantum technologies using radiative cascades.