IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical Meetings

Semiconductor quantum dots as resource for photonic quantum technologies

Łukasz Dusanowski, Magdalena Moczała-Dusanowska, Sebastian Klembt, Christian Schneider, Tobias Huber, Sven Höfling

Published Jul 1, 2022• 2 citations

Abstract

In this presentation, we will present the progress made within our group towards the establishment of semiconductor quantum dots as a resource for applications in photonic quantum technologies, with a main focus on quantum communication but also briefly addressing universal quantum computing.

DOI: 10.1109/sum53465.2022.9858222

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