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We report on the experimental observation of a hitherto ignored long-range electromagnetic coupling between self-assembled quantum dots. A 12 times enhancement of the quantum dot exciton lifetime is observed by means of time-resolved differential reflection spectroscopy. The enhancement is explained by utilizing and extending the local field effects as developed in emph{Phys. Rev. B textbf{64},125326 (2001)}. The electromagnetic coupling of the quantum dots results in a collective polarizability, and is observed as a suppression of the emission rate. Our results reveal that the coupling is established over a distance exceeding 490 nm. Moreover, the mutual coupling strength is optically tuned by varying the pump excitation density and enables us to optically tune the exciton lifetime.
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