Single artificial-atom lasing

Nature

Volumn 449, Issue 7162, 2007, Pages 588-590

  Astafiev, O ^a,b   Inomata, K ^b   Niskanen, A O ^c,d   Yamamoto, T ^a,b,c   Pashkin, Yu A ^a,b   Nakamura, Y ^a,b,c   Tsai, J S ^a,b,c  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SOLID; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ARTICLE; ATOM; DEVICE; LASER; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SOLID; SURFACE CHARGE;

EID: 34948814148     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06141     Document Type: Article

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