Room Temperature Single-Photon Source: Single-Dye Molecule Fluorescence in Liquid Crystal Host

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1512-1518

  Lukishova, Svetlana G ^a   Schmid, Ansgar W ^b   McNamara, Andrew J ^a   Boyd, Robert W ^a   Stroud Jr , Carlos R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholesteric liquid crystals; Photoluminescence; Single photon source (SPS)

Indexed keywords

COLOR CENTERS; DYES; ENERGY GAP; FLUORESCENCE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OLIGOMERS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

ROOM TEMPERATURE (RT); SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE (SPS);

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 1342265625     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2003.820944     Document Type: Article

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