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(Invited) Interplay of Spectral Diffusion and Phonon Broadening in Carbon Nanotubes: Implications for Quantum Optics

Wednesday, 16 May 2018: 11:20
Room 205 (Washington State Convention Center)
T. Claude (Universite Paris Diderot, Ecole Normale Superieure), A. Jeantet (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Université Paris Diderot), J. S. Lauret (Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, ENS Paris Saclay), Y. Chassagneux (CNRS, Ecole Normale Superieure), and C. Voisin (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Université Paris Diderot)
We performed a thorough and quantitative investigation of spectral diffusion at low temperature in carbon nanotubes wrapped in PFO and embedded in a polystyren matrix, a system of interest for applications for quantum light states generation. We show that an intrinsic line shape typical of exciton-acoustic phonon coupling can be traced back down to the µs time-scale, while spectral diffusion yields a feature-less spectral broadening of the zero-phonon line. By tuning physical parameters such as temperature and pump power we investigate the line-shape deformation at several integration time-scales. Finally, we discuss the implications of these optical properties as regards the efficiency of the static and dynamical coupling of carbon nanotube to optical micro-cavities for single photon generation.