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Quantum Photonics

  • 1st Edition - June 13, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Yasuhiko Arakawa, Dieter Bimberg
  • Language: English

Quantum Photonics aims to serve as a comprehensive and systematic reference source for entrants to the field of quantum photonics, including updated topics on quantum photonics… Read more

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Description

Quantum Photonics aims to serve as a comprehensive and systematic reference source for entrants to the field of quantum photonics, including updated topics on quantum photonics for researchers working in this field. The book reviews the fundamental knowledge of modern photonics related quantum technologies, key concepts of quantum photonic devices, and quantum photonics applications. The book is suitable for graduate students, researchers, and engineers who want to learn quantum photonics fundamentals.

The editors, who are leaders in this field, have formulated this book as an introduction to the cutting-edge research in quantum photonics. Researchers and students involved in the development of semiconductor optoelectronics and optical communication systems should also find this book helpful.

Key features

  • Covers the whole quantum photonics field, including nanostructured materials, physics, modelling, and quantum technology applications ranging from applications of q-bit emitters to quantum dot lasers
  • Comprehensively and systematically reviews fundamentals and applications of quantum photonics for beginners in the field
  • Provides foundational knowledge for modern photonics-related quantum technologies

Readership

Materials Scientists and Engineers; Electrical Engineers

Table of contents

Part 1 BASICS

1. Progress in quantum photonics: Introduction

2. Quantum electrodynamics in optical microcavities and waveguides: basics and applications to quantum photonics

3. Electronic properties of semiconductor nanostructures: Symmetry, exchange and correlation effects

4. Strong light-matter coupling in high-quality optical microcavities

Part 2 SOURCES

5. Semiconductor quantum dot lasers

6. Semiconductor non-classical light sources

7. Quantum light sources based on color centers in diamond and silicon carbide

Part 3 PLATFORMS

8. Atom-based photonics

9. Quantum photonics in photonic crystals

10. Optical lattice clocks and related platforms

Part 4 APPLICATIONS

11. Quantum key distribution and its application

12. Photonic quantum computing

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 18, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Yasuhiko Arakawa

Yasuhiko Arakawa is a Specially Appointed Professor of the Institute for Nano Quantum Electronics at The University of Tokyo, a Professor Emeritus at The University of Tokyo, a Program Director of the MEXT Q-LEAP, and the Supervisor of CREST Quantum Technology. He is a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering and the Past President of International Commission for Optics (ICO).
Affiliations and expertise
Specially Appointed Professor, Institute for Nano Quantum Electronics, The University of Tokyo; Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo; Program Director, MEXT Q-LEAP and Supervisor, CREST Quantum Technology

DB

Dieter Bimberg

Dieter Bimberg is the Director of the Bimberg Chinese–German Center for Green Photonics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences at CIOMP, Changchun and Founding Director of the Center of NanoPhotonics at TU Berlin. He is a Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Engineering of USA, and a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors.

Affiliations and expertise
Director, Bimberg Chinese–German Center for Green Photonics, Chinese Academy of Sciences at CIOMP, Changchun and Founding Director, Center of Nano Photonics, TU Berlin, Germany

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