Radiative cascades in charged quantum dots

E. Poem, Y. Kodriano, C. Tradonsky, D. Gershoni, B. D. Gerardot, P. M. Petroff

Published 2009-10-12Version 1

We measured, for the first time, two photon radiative cascades due to sequential recombination of quantum dot confined electron hole pairs in the presence of an additional spectator charge carrier. We identified direct, all optical cascades involving spin blockaded intermediate states, and indirect cascades, in which non radiative relaxation precedes the second recombination. Our measurements provide also spin dephasing rates of confined carriers.