Simple microcavity for single-photon generation

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 3049-3054

  Plakhotnik, Taras ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; MICROSTRUCTURE; PHOTONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RESONATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MICROCAVITY; MICROSTRUCTURE DEVICES; PHOTON STATISTICS; SINGLE-PHOTON GENERATION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 21244474029     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.003049     Document Type: Article

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