• DocumentCode
    2946434
  • Title

    Spontaneous emission based on 2D photonic crystal and quantum dot

  • Author

    Attia, Moez ; Chatta, Rihab ; Zghal, Mourad

  • Author_Institution
    Eng. Sch. of Commun., Ariana
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    6-8 Dec. 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    Spontaneous emission of light in semiconductor LEDs produces light that lack fixed-phase dependence; it is a question of incoherent light. However, it was proved that spontaneous emission depends not only on intrinsic property of material but also on the surrounding environment. Association between Quantum Dots (QD) and Photonic Crystals (CP) can have this role and modify characteristics of spontaneous emission and obtain wished results. In this paper we present another way to produce spontaneous emission with new interesting performances to arrive in produce a single photon source which produce indiscernible unique photons. Such sources are useful in quantum cryptography and quantum computing.
  • Keywords
    photonic crystals; semiconductor quantum dots; spontaneous emission; 2D photonic crystal; light spontaneous emission; quantum computing; quantum cryptography; quantum dot; single photon source; Cryptography; Dielectric constant; Lattices; Optical computing; Periodic structures; Photonic crystals; Quantum computing; Quantum dot lasers; Quantum dots; Spontaneous emission; filter; micro-cavity; photonic crystal; quantum dot; single photon source; spontaneous emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    ICTON Mediterranean Winter Conference, 2007. ICTON-MW 2007
  • Conference_Location
    Sousse
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1639-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1639-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICTONMW.2007.4446936
  • Filename
    4446936