High-frequency single-photon source with polarization control

Nature Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 704-708

  Strauf, Stefan ^a,b   Stoltz, Nick G ^c   Rakher, Matthew T ^a   Coldren, Larry A ^c   Petroff, Pierre M ^c   Bouwmeester, Dirk ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION EFFICIENCIES; NON-CLASSICAL LIGHTS; POLARIZATION CONTROL; QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE; QUANTUM LITHOGRAPHY; QUANTUM-DOT-BASED SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCES; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; MICROCAVITIES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; POINT DEFECTS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

EID: 36749067405     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2007.227     Document Type: Article

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