An efficient entangled-photon source from semiconductor quantum dots

Chao Zhao; Zhijie Wang

doi:10.1088/1674-4926/41/1/010401

J. Semicond. > 2020, Volume 41 > Issue 1 > 010401, doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/41/1/010401

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An efficient entangled-photon source from semiconductor quantum dots

Chao Zhao^{1, 2,} and Zhijie Wang^{1, 2,}

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Corresponding author: Chao Zhao, E-mail: zhaochao83@gmail.com; Zhijie Wang, wangzj@semi.ac.cn

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[5]	Zhao C, Chen Y H, Xu B, et al. Evolution of InAs nanostructures grown by droplet epitaxy. Appl Phys Lett, 2007, 91, 033112 doi: 10.1063/1.2757151
[6]	Zhao C, Chen Y H, Xu B, et al. Study of the wetting layer of InAs/GaAs nanorings grown by droplet epitaxy. Appl Phys Lett, 2008, 92, 063122 doi: 10.1063/1.2883931
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Fig. 1. (Color online) The dielectric antenna consisting of a QD-containing membrane, PMMA spacer, and the GaP solid immersion lens. Reproduced with permission from Ref. [9]. Copyright 2018, Springer Nature.

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[1]	Müller M, Bounouar S, Jöns K D, et al. On-demand generation of indistinguishable polarization-entangled photon pairs. Nat Photonics, 2014, 8, 224 doi: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.377
[2]	Dousse A, Suffczyński J, Beveratos A, et al. Ultrabright source of entangled photon pairs. Nature, 2010, 466, 217 doi: 10.1038/nature09148
[3]	Claudon J, Bleuse J, Malik N S, et al. A highly efficient single-photon source based on a quantum dot in a photonic nanowire. Nat Photonics, 2010, 4, 174 doi: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.287x
[4]	Kako S, Santori C, Hoshino K, et al. A gallium nitride single-photon source operating at 200 K. Nat Mater, 2006, 5, 887 doi: 10.1038/nmat1763
[5]	Zhao C, Chen Y H, Xu B, et al. Evolution of InAs nanostructures grown by droplet epitaxy. Appl Phys Lett, 2007, 91, 033112 doi: 10.1063/1.2757151
[6]	Zhao C, Chen Y H, Xu B, et al. Study of the wetting layer of InAs/GaAs nanorings grown by droplet epitaxy. Appl Phys Lett, 2008, 92, 063122 doi: 10.1063/1.2883931
[7]	Benson O, Santori C, Pelton M, et al. Regulated and entangled photons from a single quantum dot. Phys Rev Lett, 2000, 84, 2513 doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.2513
[8]	Deshpande S, Heo J, Das A, et al. Electrically driven polarized single-photon emission from an InGaN quantum dot in a GaN nanowire. Nat Commun, 2013, 4, 1675 doi: 10.1038/ncomms2691
[9]	Chen Y, Zopf M, Keil R, et al. Highly-efficient extraction of entangled photons from quantum dots using a broadband optical antenna. Nat Commun, 2018, 9, 2994 doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-05456-2