Photon antibunching in the fluorescence of individual color centers in diamond

Optics Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 17, 2000, Pages 1294-1296

  Brouri, Rosa ^a   Beveratos, Alexios ^a   Poizat, Jean Philippe ^a   Grangier, Philippe ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROOM TEMPERATURES;

DIAMONDS; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT EMISSION; PHOTONS; SOLID STATE LASERS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0001629129     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.25.001294     Document Type: Article

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