Quantum-dot sources for single photons and entangled photon pairs

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1805-1814

  Young, Robert J ^a   Ellis, David J P ^a,b   Stevenson, R Mark ^a   Bennett, Anthony J ^a   Atkinson, Paola ^b   Cooper, Ken ^b   Ritchie, David A ^b   Shields, Andrew J ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entangle photons; Photoluminescence; Quantum dots; Quantum information; Single photons

Indexed keywords

EXCITED STATES; EXCITONS; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS; ENTANGLED POLARIZATION STATE; POLARIZATION-ENTANGLED PHOTONS; QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUANTUM INFORMATION APPLICATIONS; RECOMBINATION DYNAMICS; SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE; SINGLE PHOTONS;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 64149128114     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2007.900966     Document Type: Article

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