Direct Measurement of the Photon Statistics of a Triggered Single Photon Source

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2002, Pages

  Treussart, F ^a   Alleaume R ^a   Le Floc'h V ^a   Xiao, L T ^a   Courty, J M ^b   Roch, J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE KASTLER BROSSEL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTON SOURCES;

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; FLUORESCENCE; LASER PULSES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RELAXATION PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 0037179370     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.093601     Document Type: Article

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