Investigations of optical coherence properties in an erbium-doped silicate fiber for quantum state storage

Optics Communications

Volumn 266, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 720-726

  Staudt, Matthias U ^a   Hastings Simon, Sara R ^a   Afzelius, Mikael ^a   Jaccard, Didier ^a   Tittel, Wolfgang ^a,b   Gisin, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coherence properties; Erbium; Magnetic tunnelling systems; Quantum communication; Quantum memory; Rare earth doped silicate fiber

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; MAGNETIC FIELDS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL IMAGE STORAGE; PHOTONS; SILICATES;

COHERENCE PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC TUNNELING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL DEPHASING; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM MEMORY; RARE-EARTH DOPED SILICATE FIBERS;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 33748953901     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2006.05.007     Document Type: Article

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