Candidate: Simon Daley
Title: Electro-optic rotating half-waveplate for aquantum dot fine-structure eraser
Date: July 31, 2019
Time: 11:00 AM
Place: RAC 1101
Supervisor(s): Reimer, Michael M.E.
Abstract:
Tapered semiconductor nanowires form bright, nearly dephasing-free sources of entangled photon pairs when grown with an embedded quantum dot. An outstanding challenge with these sources is the presence of fine-structure splitting, which causes the output state to precess rapidly and degrades the measured entanglement fidelity [1]. The effects of fine-structure splitting can be “erased” once the photons have been emitted using a flexible all-optical approach which requires a rapidly rotating half-waveplate [2]. Commercially available off-the-shelf systems cannot emulate a half-waveplate rotating at the required speeds. I present an electro-optic device which can.
References:
[1] ACS Photonics6, 1656-1663 (2019)
[2] Opt. Express26, 24487 (2018)