On-demand semiconductor single-photon source with near-unity indistinguishability

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 213-217

  He, Yu Ming ^a   He, Yu ^a   Wei, Yu Jia ^a   Wu, Dian ^c   Atatüre, Mete ^a,b   Schneider, Christian ^c   Höfling, Sven ^c   Kamp, Martin ^c   Lu, Chao Yang ^a,b   Pan, Jian Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; FLUORESCENCE; LASER EXCITATION; NANOCRYSTALS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM DOT LASERS; QUANTUM OPTICS; TRAPPED IONS;

HONG-OU-MANDEL INTERFERENCES; INDISTINGUISHABILITY; OPTICAL QUANTUM COMPUTING; QUANTUM CONTROLLED NOT GATE; QUANTUM INFORMATION; RESONANCE FLUORESCENCES; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; TWO-PHOTON EMISSION;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; SOLID STATE; VISIBILITY;

EID: 84874664334     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2012.262     Document Type: Article

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