Quantum dot source of single photons

Title of the project: Quantum dot sources of single photons for time-bin quantum information processing.
Name of the VDSP student(s) & image credits: Lorenzo Carosini & Marco di Vita
Project supervised by: Philip Walther

About me/us: Ph.D. student in Walther group, at University of Vienna.

Image: 3D depiction of our single-photon source: a semiconductor quantum dot, embedded in a micro-pillar optical cavity, is optically pumped with pulsed laser light and emits highly indistinguishable single photons.