Generation and transfer of single photons on a photonic crystal chip

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 5550-5558

  Englund, Dirk ^a   Faraon, Andrei ^a   Zhang, Bingyang ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshihisa ^a   Vučković, Jelena ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PACKET NETWORKS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; WAVEGUIDES;

RATE ENHANCEMENT; SINGLE PHOTONS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION (SE); WAVEPACKETS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 34247849480     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.005550     Document Type: Article

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