Developing Topological Insulator Fiber Based Photon Pairs Source for Ultrafast Optoelectronic Applications

Abstract

This report documents research in developing a new source for the production of correlated/entangled photon pairs based on the unique nanolayer properties of topological insulator (TI) materials. The fast nonlinear optical-response of magneto-optic effect together with large third order nonlinearity in TI: Bi2Se3 offers a singular opportunity for accurate quantum operations in secure quantum communications and quantum computation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1009573

Entities

People

  • Kim Fook Lee

Organizations

  • Northwestern University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Detectors
  • Dielectrics
  • Distributed Feedback Lasers
  • Faraday Effect
  • Femtosecond Time
  • Fibers
  • Information Processing
  • Lasers
  • Light Pulses
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Magneto-Optic Effects
  • Materials
  • Optical Properties
  • Quantum Computing
  • Wave Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene
  • Quantum Computing