Room temperature-dipolelike single photon source with a colloidal dot-in-rod

We propose colloidal CdSe/CdS dots in rods as nonclassical sources for quantum information technology. Such nanoemitters show specific properties such as strongly polarized emission of on-demand single photons at room temperature, dipolelike behavior and mono-exponential recombination rates, making us envision their suitability as sources of single photons with well defined quantum states in quantum cryptography based devices.

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