Applied Physics: Controlled single-photon emission from a single trapped two-level atom

Science

Volumn 309, Issue 5733, 2005, Pages 454-456

  Darquie B ^a   Jones, M P A ^a   Dingjan, J ^a   Beugnon, J ^a   Bergamini, S ^a   Sortais, Y ^a   Messin, G ^a   Browaeys, A ^a   Grangier, P ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DATA PROCESSING; LIGHT SOURCES; POLARIZATION; RUBIDIUM;

INTENSITY CORRELATION; OPTICAL TWEEZER; SINGLE PHOTON PULSES;

PHOTONS;

RUBIDIUM;

PHYSICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHOTON; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLID STATE; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 22244461861     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1113394     Document Type: Article

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21. We thank P. Georges for his assistance in designing the pulsed laser system. This work was supported by the European Union through the Information Society Technologies/Future and Emerging Technologies/ Quantum Information Processing and Communications project "QGATES" and the Research Training Network "CONQUEST."