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    Tuning emission energy and fine structure splitting in quantum dots emitting in the telecom O-band
    (College Park, MD : American Institute of Physics, 2019) Höfer, B.; Olbrich, F.; Kettler, J.; Paul, M.; Höschele, J.; Jetter, M.; Portalupi, S.L.; Ding, F.; Michler, P.; Schmidt, O.G.
    We report on optical investigations of MOVPE-grown InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots emitting at the telecom O-band that were integrated onto uniaxial piezoelectric actuators. This promising technique, which does not degrade the emission brightness of the quantum emitters, enables us to tune the quantum dot emission wavelengths and their fine-structure splitting. By spectrally analyzing the emitted light with respect to its polarization, we are able to demonstrate the cancelation of the fine structure splitting within the experimental resolution limit. This work represents an important step towards the high-yield generation of entangled photon pairs at telecommunication wavelength, together with the capability to precisely tune the emission to target wavelengths.
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    High-temperature electromechanical loss in piezoelectric langasite and catangasite crystals
    (Melville, NY : American Inst. of Physics, 2021) Suhak, Yuriy; Fritze, Holger; Sotnikov, Andrei; Schmidt, Hagen; Johnson, Ward L.
    Temperature-dependent acoustic loss Q−1 is studied in partially disordered langasite (LGS, La3Ga5SiO14) and ordered catangasite (CTGS, Ca3TaGa3Si2O14) crystals and compared with previously reported CTGS and langatate (LGT, La3Ga5.5Ta0.5O14) data. Two independent techniques, a contactless tone-burst excitation technique and contacting resonant piezoelectric spectroscopy, are used in this study. Contributions to the measured Q−1(T) are determined through fitting to physics-based functions, and the extracted fit parameters, including the activation energies of the processes, are discussed. It is shown that losses in LGS and CTGS are caused by a superposition of several mechanisms, including intrinsic phonon–phonon loss, point-defect relaxations, and conductivity-related relaxations.
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    Possible experimental realization of a basic Z 2 topological semimetal in GaGeTe
    (College Park, MD : American Institute of Physics, 2019) Haubold, E.; Fedorov, A.; Pielnhofer, F.; Rusinov, I.P.; Menshchikova, T.V.; Duppel, V.; Friedrich, D.; Weihrich, R.; Pfitzner, A.; Zeugner, A.; Isaeva, A.; Thirupathaiah, S.; Kushnirenko, Y.; Rienks, E.; Kim, T.; Chulkov, E.V.; Büchner, B.; Borisenko, S.
    We report experimental and theoretical evidence that GaGeTe is a basic Z2 topological semimetal with three types of charge carriers: bulk-originated electrons and holes as well as surface state electrons. This electronic situation is qualitatively similar to the classic 3D topological insulator Bi2Se3, but important differences account for an unprecedented transport scenario in GaGeTe. High-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy combined with advanced band structure calculations show a small indirect energy gap caused by a peculiar band inversion at the T-point of the Brillouin zone in GaGeTe. An energy overlap of the valence and conduction bands brings both electron and holelike carriers to the Fermi level, while the momentum gap between the corresponding dispersions remains finite. We argue that peculiarities of the electronic spectrum of GaGeTe have a fundamental importance for the physics of topological matter and may boost the material's application potential.