A single-photon server with just one atom

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 253-255

  Hijlkema, Markus ^a   Weber, Bernhard ^a   Specht, Holger P ^a   Webster, Simon C ^a   Kuhn, Axel ^b   Rempe, Gerhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

CONTROLLED COLLISIONS; DETERMINISTIC PROTOCOLS; ENSEMBLE AVERAGING; HIGH-FINESSE CAVITY; LIMITED OBSERVATIONS; OF QUANTUM-INFORMATION; SINGLE PHOTON GENERATION; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

EID: 34047129564     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys569     Document Type: Article

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