Microcavity enhanced single photon emission from two-dimensional WSe2

L. C. Flatten; L. Weng; Artur Branny; S. Johnson; P. R. Dolan; A. A. P. Trichet; Brian D. Gerardot; J. M. Smith

doi:10.1063/1.5026779

Microcavity enhanced single photon emission from two-dimensional WSe₂

L. C. Flatten, L. Weng, Artur Branny, S. Johnson, P. R. Dolan, A. A. P. Trichet, Brian D. Gerardot, J. M. Smith

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Atomically flat semiconducting materials such as monolayer WSe₂ hold great promise for novel optoelectronic devices. Recently, quantum light emission has been observed from bound excitons in exfoliated WSe₂. As part of developing optoelectronic devices, the control of the radiative properties of such emitters is an important step. Here, we report the coupling of a bound exciton in WSe₂ to open microcavities. We use a range of radii of curvature in the plano-concave cavity geometry with mode volumes in the λ3 regime, giving Purcell factors of up to 8 while increasing the photon flux five-fold. Additionally, we determine the quantum efficiency of the single photon emitter to be η=0.46±0.03. Our findings pave the way to cavity-enhanced monolayer based single photon sources for a wide range of applications in nanophotonics and quantum information technologies.

Original language	English
Article number	191105
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	112
Issue number	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5026779
Publication status	Published - 11 May 2018

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