Controlling the transport of charge carriers between two semiconductor nanostructures using an acoustic wave yields a high-repetition-rate source of single photons with tunable emission energy.
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Cunningham, J. Sound tunes single-photon source. Nature Photon 3, 611–612 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2009.199
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