High-performance semiconductor quantum-dot single-photon sources

P Senellart, G Solomon, A White - Nature nanotechnology, 2017 - nature.com
Single photons are a fundamental element of most quantum optical technologies. The ideal
single-photon source is an on-demand, deterministic, single-photon source delivering light …

Semiconductor devices for entangled photon pair generation: a review

A Orieux, MAM Versteegh, KD Jöns… - Reports on Progress in …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Entanglement is one of the most fascinating properties of quantum mechanical systems;
when two particles are entangled the measurement of the properties of one of the two allows …

Highly indistinguishable and strongly entangled photons from symmetric GaAs quantum dots

D Huber, M Reindl, Y Huo, H Huang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The development of scalable sources of non-classical light is fundamental to unlocking the
technological potential of quantum photonics. Semiconductor quantum dots are emerging as …

Observation of excitonic fine structure in a 2D transition-metal dichalcogenide semiconductor

J Shang, X Shen, C Cong, N Peimyoo, B Cao… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, such as transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers
(TMD 1Ls), have attracted increasing attention owing to the underlying fundamental physics …

Strain-tunable GaAs quantum dot: a nearly dephasing-free source of entangled photon pairs on demand

D Huber, M Reindl, SF Covre da Silva, C Schimpf… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We report on the observation of nearly maximally entangled photon pairs from
semiconductor quantum dots, without resorting to postselection techniques. We use GaAs …

Semiconductor quantum dots as an ideal source of polarization-entangled photon pairs on-demand: a review

D Huber, M Reindl, J Aberl, A Rastelli… - Journal of Optics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
More than 80 years have passed since the first publication on entangled quantum states.
Over this period, the concept of spookily interacting quantum states became an emerging …

Observation of strongly entangled photon pairs from a nanowire quantum dot

MAM Versteegh, ME Reimer, KD Jöns, D Dalacu… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
A bright photon source that combines high-fidelity entanglement, on-demand generation,
high extraction efficiency, directional and coherent emission, as well as position control at …

Wavelength-tunable sources of entangled photons interfaced with atomic vapours

R Trotta, J Martín-Sánchez, JS Wildmann… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The prospect of using the quantum nature of light for secure communication keeps spurring
the search and investigation of suitable sources of entangled photons. A single …

Time-bin entangled photons from a quantum dot

H Jayakumar, A Predojević, T Kauten, T Huber… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Long-distance quantum communication is one of the prime goals in the field of quantum
information science. With information encoded in the quantum state of photons, existing …

Epitaxial quantum dots: a semiconductor launchpad for photonic quantum technologies

X Zhou, L Zhai, J Liu - Photonics Insights, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Epitaxial quantum dots formed by III–V compound semiconductors are excellent sources of
non-classical photons, creating single photons and entangled multi-photon states on …