Fine Structure of Neutral Excitons in Single GaAlAs Quantum Dots

Optical anisotropy of neutral excitons in GaAlAs/AlAs quantum dots is investigated. Low-temperature polarization-sensitive photoluminescence measurements of single quantum dots are performed. It is found that neutral excitons (X) in the quantum dots exhibit a fine structure splitting. The fine structure splitting ranges from 10 μeV to 100 μeV and correlates with the X energy. The polarization axis of the fine structure splitting is well oriented along [110] crystallographic direction of a substrate. The orientation is attributed to the elongation of GaAlAs/AlAs quantum dots in the [110] direction of the substrate.