Stable solid-state source of single photons

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 290-293

  Kurtsiefer, Christian ^a   Mayer, Sonja ^a   Zarda, Patrick ^b   Weinfurter, Harald ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; RAMAN SCATTERING; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SOLID STATE LASERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC DIAMONDS;

NITROGEN VACANCY CENTERS; PHOTOBLEACHING;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 3543054152     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.290     Document Type: Article

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