Optical levitation of microdroplet containing a single quantum dot

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Minowa, Yosuke; Kawai, Ryoichi; Ashida, Masaaki;
(2014)
We demonstrate the optical levitation or trapping in helium gas of a single quantum dot (QD) within a liquid droplet. Bright single photon emission from the levitated QD in the droplet was observed for more than 200 s. The observed photon count rates are consistent with... View more
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