Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

A quantum light-emitting diode for the standard telecom window around 1,550 nm

  • T. Müller,
  • J. Skiba-Szymanska,
  • A. B. Krysa,
  • J. Huwer,
  • M. Felle,
  • M. Anderson,
  • R. M. Stevenson,
  • J. Heffernan,
  • D. A. Ritchie,
  • A. J. Shields

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03251-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Quantum light sources operating at telecom wavelength are a long-sought goal for quantum technologies. Here, the authors show electrically injected emission of single photons and entangled photon pairs from indium phosphide based quantum dots, operating up to a temperature of 93 K.