Andrea Fiore

Group Leader, EPFL Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics

Andrea Fiore is group leader at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)’s Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics (Lausanne, Switzerland).

FIGURE 1. Atomic-force microscopy shows a QD array (InAs on GaAs) for emission at 1300 nm (left). Schematic diagram of conduction band of a single QD, simplified for clarity, shows only two sets of energy levels: 'ground state' (GS) and 'excited state' (ES), analogous to the atomic s and p shells (right).

Research

QUANTUM-DOT SOURCES: Quantum-dot development pursues new applications

Andrea Fiore

Jan. 1, 2006

Despite limited gain and modulation response, quantum dots offer several advantages as optical sources for telecommunications and other industrial applications.