On-chip single photon sources using planar photonic crystals and single quantum dots

Laser and Photonics Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 499-516

  Yao, Peijun ^a   Mangarao, V S C ^a,b   Hughes, S ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cavity QED; Chip based quantum optics; Nanophotonics; Planar photonic crystals; Quantum dots; Single photons; Spontaneous emission

Indexed keywords

CAVITY-QED; PLANAR PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; QUANTUM DOT; QUANTUM DOTS; SINGLE PHOTONS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; NANOPHOTONICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 77954249709     PISSN: 18638880     EISSN: 18638899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.200810081     Document Type: Article

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