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Optical Fiber Communication Conference

Generation of Regulated Single Photons by Pulsed Excitation of a Single InAs Quantum Dot

Alper Kıraz, Peter Michler, Christoph Becher, B. Gayral, Lidong Zhang, Evelyn L. Hu, Winston Vaughan Schoenfeld, Pierre M. Petroff, Ataç İmamoğlu

Published Jan 1, 2001• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report a single-photon turnstile device based on pulsed excitation of a single self-assembled InAs quantum dot. This device can be used in quantum cryptography and future quantum information processing applications.
DOI
10.1364/icqi.2001.pb17

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