High purity bright single photon source

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 7940-7949

  Neergaard Nielsen, J S ^a   Nielsen, B Melholt ^a   Takahashi, H ^b,c   Vistnes, A I ^d   Polzik, E S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION COUNTERS;

HOMODYNE MEASUREMENT; PHOTON COUNTING; WIGNER FUNCTION;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES;

EID: 34250892432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.007940     Document Type: Article

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