Bright single-photon sources in the telecom band by deterministically coupling single quantum dots to a hybrid circular Bragg resonator

Shi-Wen Xu; Yu-Ming Wei; Rong-Bin Su; Xue-Shi Li; Pei-Nian Huang; Shun-Fa Liu; Xiao-Ying Huang; Ying Yu; Jin Liu; Xue-Hua Wang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.461034

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