The generation, manipulation, storage, and detection of single photons play a central role in
emerging photonic quantum information technology. Individual photons serve as flying …

Metamaterials are nano-engineered media with designed properties beyond those available
in nature with applications in all aspects of materials science. In particular, metamaterials …

Quantum cryptography Page 1 Quantum cryptography Nicolas Gisin, Grégoire Ribordy,
Wolfgang Tittel, and Hugo Zbinden Group of Applied Physics, University of Geneva, 1211 …

Optical microcavities confine light to small volumes by resonant recirculation. Devices based
on optical microcavities are already indispensable for a wide range of applications and …

Quantum communication relies on the availability of light pulses with strong quantum
correlations among photons. An example of such an optical source is a single-photon pulse …

Fast, high efficiency and low error single-photon sources are required for the implementation
of a number of quantum information processing applications. The fastest triggered single …

Bright sources of indistinguishable single photons are strongly needed for the scalability of
quantum information processing. Semiconductor quantum dots are promising systems to …

The development of efficient solid-state sources of single photons is a major challenge in the
context of quantum communication, optical quantum information processing and metrology …

An overview on the properties and applications of polymer and inorganic planar 1D photonic
crystals fabricated from solution is provided here. In the last decades, photonic crystals …

Single-photon sources have recently been demonstrated using a variety of devices,
including molecules,,, mesoscopic quantum wells, colour centres, trapped ions and …