Trapping and delaying photons for one nanosecond in an ultrasmall high-Q photonic-crystal nanocavity

Nature Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-52

  Tanabe, Takasumi ^a   Notomi, Masaya ^a   Kuramochi, Eiichi ^a   Shinya, Akihiko ^a   Taniyama, Hideaki ^a  

^a NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC CONTROLS; OPTICAL PROCESSING; PHOTON LIFETIME; PROPAGATION OF LIGHTS; QUALITY FACTORS; QUANTUM INFORMATION; SPECTRAL MEASUREMENT; TIME DOMAIN MEASUREMENT;

OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SLOW LIGHT; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

LIGHT;

EID: 34247531405     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2006.51     Document Type: Article

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