An electrically driven microcavity single photon source

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6129, Issue , 2006, Pages

  See, P ^a   Ward, M B ^a   Karimov, O Z ^a   Yuan, Z ^a   Shields, A J ^a   Farrow, T ^b   Atkinson, P ^b   Ritchie, D A ^b  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

InAs quantum dot; Light emitting diode; Single photon source

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; FIBER OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; QUANTUM OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

INAS QUANTUM DOT; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE PHOTODETECTORS; SINGLE PHOTON SOURCE;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 33646201561     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.646152     Document Type: Conference Paper

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