Photon-number-discriminating detection using a quantum-dot, optically gated, field-effect transistor

Nature Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 585-588

  Gansen, E J ^a   Rowe, M A ^a   Greene, M B ^a   Rosenberg, D ^b   Harvey, T E ^a   Su, M Y ^a   Hadfield, R H ^c   Nam, S W ^a   Mirin, R P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CURRENTS; DECISION REGIONS; DETECTED PHOTONS; DISCRETE NUMBERS; LINEAR OPTICS QUANTUM COMPUTING; PHOTOGENERATED CARRIERS; STATES OF LIGHT; TRAPPED CARRIERS;

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM THEORY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 34948820150     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2007.173     Document Type: Article

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