title: Solid-state single photon sources: the nanowire antenna.
abstract: We design several single-photon-sources based on the emission of a quantum dot embedded in a semiconductor (GaAs) nanowire. Through various taper designs, we engineer the nanowire ends to realize efficient metallic-dielectric mirrors and to reduce the divergence of the far-field radiation diagram. Using fully-vectorial calculations and a comprehensive Fabry-Perot model, we show that various realistic nanowire geometries may act as nanoantennas (volume of approximately 0.05 lambda(3)) that assist funnelling the emitted photons into a single monomode channel. Typically, very high extraction efficiencies above 90% are predicted for a collection optics with a numerical aperture NA=0.85. In addition, since no frequency-selective effect is used in our design, this large efficiency is achieved over a remarkably broad spectral range, Deltalambda=70 nm at lambda=950 nm.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique, CNRS, Univ Paris-Sud, Campus Polytechnique, RD 128, 91127 Palaiseau, France.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Friedler
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sauvan
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Hugonin
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lalanne
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Claudon
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Gérard
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D007834:Lasers; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry*; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D010316:Particle Size; D045663:Quantum Dots; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012666:Semiconductors