Engineered quantum dot single-photon sources
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Fast, high efficiency and low error single-photon sources are required for the implementation of a number of quantum information processing applications. The fastest triggered single-photon sources to date have been demonstrated using epitaxially grown semiconductor quantum dots (QDs), which can be conveniently integrated with optical microcavities. Recent advances in QD technology, including demonstrations of high temperature and telecommunications wavelength single-photon emission, have made QD single-photon sources more practical. Here we discuss the applications of single-photon sources and their various requirements, before reviewing the progress made on a QD platform in meeting these requirements.
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A high degree of indistinguishability is at the heart of optical quantum computing, Boson sampling, and solid-state quantum networks.
“Another crucial demand is that the photons should possess a high degree of indistinguishability, which is at the heart of optical quantum computing [2], Boson sampling [23], and solid-state quantum networks [24].”
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Heralded single photons produced by parametric down conversion have served as the workhorse for multiphoton interferometric experiments in the past decades.
“We compare the performance of the single-photon source created in this work with heralded single photons produced by parametric down conversion [27], which have served as the workhorse for multiphoton interferometric experiments in the past decades [2].”
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- Authors
- Buckley, S., Rivoire, K., & Vučković, J.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- ORCID
- Buckley, Sonia
- Venue
- Reports on Progress in Physics
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Published
- 2012-11-09
- Volume
- 75
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 126503
- ISSN
- 0034-4885 (ISSN-L)
- 1361-6633
- OpenAlex
- W2079914210
- Cited by
- 431
- References
- 257
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- FWCI
- 17.02
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Reports on Progress in Physics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (1025811)
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
- Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Keywords
- single-photon sources, semiconductor quantum dots, epitaxial quantum dots, optical microcavities, quantum information processing, quantum dot lasers
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