Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

Wavelength-tunable entangled photons from silicon-integrated III–V quantum dots

  • Yan Chen,
  • Jiaxiang Zhang,
  • Michael Zopf,
  • Kyubong Jung,
  • Yang Zhang,
  • Robert Keil,
  • Fei Ding,
  • Oliver G. Schmidt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10387
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Deterministic sources of entangled photons are important for photonic quantum networks, but many applications are only possible when their wavelengths are tunable. Here, the authors use on-chip strain engineering to demonstrate such a source with silicon-integrated InAs/GaAs quantum dots.