Quantum dots reaching the best performances as non-classical light emitters are based on the GaAs platform. The main drawback is their natural emission wavelength, generally around 800-900 nm, so not suitable for fibre-based experiments. In this talk we will discuss two approaches to reach the telecom C-band, within the maximum transmission window of silica fibers. On the one hand, the use of quantum frequency conversion will enable the use of non-linear processes to transfer the high quality NIR photons to any other wavelength, here 1550 nm [1]. On the other hand, growth engineering can be utilized to modify size and strain conditions of the quantum dot, enabling the emission at telecom O- and C-band with the same dot stoichiometry as for the NIR ones [2].
[1] J. H. Weber, et al., Nat. Nanotechnol. 14, 23 (2019).
[2] C. Nawrath et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 115, 023103 (2019).
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