Microcavities are semiconductor, metal, or dielectric structures providing optical confinement
in one, two or three dimensions. At the end of the 20th century, microcavities have attracted …

In this contribution, we briefly recall the basic concepts of quantum optics and properties of
semiconductor quantum dot (QD) which are necessary to the understanding of the physics of …

Spontaneous two-photon emission from a solid-state single quantum emitter is observed.
We investigated photoluminescence from the neutral biexciton in a single semiconductor …

We investigate theoretically two-photon processes in a microcavity containing one quantum
dot in the strong-coupling regime. The cavity mode can be tuned to resonantly drive the two …

Photonic crystal technology, which was initially proposed as a way to realize nanoscale
nanocavities and nanowaveguides, is now finding applications as a surface interface layer …

Photonic crystals in which the refractive index changes periodically provide an exciting tool
for the manipulation of photons and have seen substantial progress in recent years. In this …

We study the effect of pure dephasing on a two-level system in strong coupling in the
nonlinear regime with the single mode of a cavity. The photoluminescence spectrum of the …

We describe theoretically the effects of the quantum back action under the continuous
optical measurement of electron spins in quantum dots. We consider the system excitation …

The emission properties of a single quantum dot in a microcavity are studied on the basis of
a semiconductor model. As a function of the pump rate of the system we investigate the …

We discuss the spectral line shapes of N quantum dots in strong coupling with the single
mode of a microcavity in the presence of a continuous, incoherent pum**. Nontrivial …