Indistinguishable photons from a single-photon device

Nature

Volumn 419, Issue 6907, 2002, Pages 594-597

  Santori, Charles ^a   Fattal, David ^a   Vučković, Jelena ^a   Solomon, Glenn S ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshihisa ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

WAVE PACKETS;

PHOTONS;

QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; OPTICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 0037057661     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01086     Document Type: Article

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