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18 - Electrically operated entangled light sources based on quantum dots

from Part VI - Single dots for future telecommunications applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2012

By
R. M. Stevenson ,
A. J. Bennett  and
A. J. Shields
Edited by
Alexander Tartakovskii
R. M. Stevenson
Affiliation:
Toshiba Research Europe Limited, UK
A. J. Bennett
Affiliation:
Toshiba Research Europe Limited, UK
A. J. Shields
Affiliation:
Toshiba Research Europe Limited, UK
Alexander Tartakovskii
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
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Summary

Introduction

Quantum information technology promises to offer incredible advantages over current digital systems, allowing intractable problems in science and engineering to be tackled almost instantaneously through quantum computing, and unconditionally secure communication over long distances using quantum key distribution. Many schemes have been developed to implement quantum computing, including using linear optics [28]. The linear optical approach has proved popular due to the limited decoherence of photons with the environment, and accessibility of the components required for simple experiments. At the heart of an optical quantum computer, or extended range quantum key distribution using quantum relays or repeaters [14, 8, 24], lie entangled photons. The characteristics of the sources that create entangled photons, and their properties, are therefore central to realizing the full potential of such applications.

Quantum dots are one technology with which entangled light sources can be built [6]. Although first realised only relatively recently [49], they in principle offer key fundamental and practical advantages over other entangled photon sources. In the fundamental sense, quantum dots can be triggered, so that no more than one entangled photon pair is emitted at a time. This is in stark contrast to Poissonian entangled light sources [47, 27, 13], including the most widely used parametric down-conversion, where zero or multiple photon-pairs are usually emitted due to their probabilistic nature. Furthermore quantum dots have the potential to operate with high efficiency, with current experiments reporting up to 72% collection efficiency for the first and second photon [9, 12].

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Quantum Dots
Optics, Electron Transport and Future Applications
 , pp. 319 - 340
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2012

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