Semiconductor quantum dots are an exciting new material for photonics and quantum information
because their properties can be tailored to a wide extent.
In a first approximation, they can be considered as artifical atoms,
though it is quite clear that they are 'atoms' strongly interacting with their environment.
This provides challenges as well as opportunities.
It is the aim of this project to enhance the knowledge on the nonlinear optics of quantum dots and use this
to achieve bistability and spontaneous light localization in nonlinear cavities based on quantum dots.
(More information on spontaneous light localization and solitons is available here.)
Current investigation are directed on the characterization of InAs quantum dots with an emission in the 1.3 micron range.
People involved with Quantum Dot research
Funding
| EPSRC project EP/E025021:
Nonlinear optics and light localization in quantum dot samples |
Collaborations
