Single photons on demand from a single molecule at room temperature

Nature

Volumn 407, Issue 6803, 2000, Pages 491-493

  Lounis, B ^a,b   Moerner, W E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LASER; LIGHT; MEASUREMENT; OPTICS; PHOTON; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0034727111     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35035032     Document Type: Article

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