A broadband single-photon source

Friday, September 19, 2008 - 10:21 in Physics & Chemistry

As science makes progress toward practical quantum computing, improved quantum cryptography and scalable quantum communications systems, single photon sources will become more important. Until now, though, efficient solid-state single photon sources are hard to come by. “The standard procedure,” Peter Lodahl tells PhysOrg.com, “has been to put a quantum dot in a photonic crystal cavity.”

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