Polarization-entangled photons produced with high-symmetry site-controlled quantum dots

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 302-306

  Mohan, A ^a   Felici, M ^a   Gallo, P ^a   Dwir, B ^a   Rudra, A ^a   Faist, J ^b   Kapon, E ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITON TRANSITIONS; FINE STRUCTURE SPLITTING; OF QUANTUM-INFORMATION; PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION; POISSONIAN STATISTICS; POLARIZATION ENTANGLEMENT; POLARIZATION-ENTANGLED PHOTONS; SITE-CONTROLLED QUANTUM DOTS;

EXCITONS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 77951801377     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.2     Document Type: Article

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