12 - All-solid-state quantum optics employing quantum dots in photonic crystals

Abstract

Photonic crystal membranes in GaAs containing InGaAs quantum dots have proven very suitable for fundamental quantum electrodynamics (QED) experiments in recent years. We review recent progress on spontaneous-emission control, cavity QED, and highly efficient photonic crystal waveguide single-photon sources. Furthermore, the role of structural disorder in photonic crystal waveguides due to unavoidable fabrication imperfections is discussed. Such random imperfections provide a novel way to localize light using disorder as a resource enabling cavity QED with Anderson-localized modes.