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A Quantum Light Source for Quantum Information Applications in the Telecom C-Band 10.17863/CAM.71054 Anderson, Matthew 0000000187471187 Ritchie, David Shields, Andrew Semiconductor quantum dot (QD) quantum light sources have long been established as suitable candidates for many quantum information applications, due to the on-demand emission of highly pure and highly indistinguishable single and entangled photons. A key factor in the development of this technology is the operation over the standard telecommunication optical fibre network infrastructure, where the minimum absorption wavelength window is centred on the telecom C-band (1530 – 1565 nm). Initial experiments in this work demonstrated single-photon emission of a QD light source emitting directly in the telecom C-band, under both continuous wave (CW) and 1-GHz pulsed excitation regimes. The QDs were further characterised in terms of fine-structure splitting (FSS) and coherence time, in order to determine their suitability for quantum entanglement and interference-based applications. Long coherence times were observed in the majority of the QDs considered, allowing the demonstration of Hong-Ou-Mandel-type two-photon interference of subsequently emitted photons under CW excitation. The post-selected interference visibility was found to be limited by only the detector resolution and single-photon purity. A further demonstration of high-visibility interference under the same limitations was then made using QD photons and dissimilar photons from a laser, forming the basis of a fibre-based quantum relay. Working further towards a quantum relay, polarisation-entangled photon pairs in the telecom C-band were then generated using the radiative cascade of the biexciton, where a record high fidelity to the ©+ Bell state was observed under both CW and 1-GHz pulsed excitation regimes. While an anomalous effect of the FSS was observed in a majority of the studied QDs, a further characterisation of the FSS in terms of the QD polarisation eigenstates confirmed the emission of entangled photon pairs from such an anomalous-splitting QD. Finally, the work of this thesis was combined to demonstrate a proof-of-principle quantum relay using a QD light source in the telecom C-band. The relay was operated first under CW excitation where polarisation encoded laser input qubits were used and high-fidelity quantum teleportation was observed. In an effort to demonstrate a more technologically relevant application, the quantum relay was subsequently operated at 1 GHz in order to demonstrate the teleportation of initially time-bin encoded laser input qubits. A high mean teleportation fidelity was again observed, demonstrating the potential of this telecom C-band QD quantum light source in the future of long-distance quantum information applications. University of Cambridge 2020-11-01 Thesis Doctoral Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) eng https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/323594 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/5d9a469c-6335-4428-bd2e-2cf65885d708/download 184b257bba91008722171f30adf75a42 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/56914503-cde1-4c7f-9c3c-367d5969ac27/download 353adac0d1ebdfd65ab16480263c3c87 https://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved/ Quantum dot Quantum teleportation Entanglement Single photon source