Optical decoherence in Er3+-doped silicate fiber: Evidence for coupled spin-elastic tunneling systems

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  MacFarlane, R M ^a,b   Sun, Y ^a,c   Sellin, P B ^a   Cone, R L ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c W O Farber Center for Civic Leadership   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TUNNELING; MAGNETIC FIELDS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS;

DECOHERENCE TIMES; SILICATE FIBER; SPIN-ELASTIC; TUNNELING SYSTEMS;

SILICATE MINERALS;

EID: 32644473357     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.033602     Document Type: Article

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