Controlling cavity reflectivity with a single quantum dot

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7171, 2007, Pages 857-861

  Englund, Dirk ^a   Faraon, Andrei ^a   Fushman, Ilya ^a   Stoltz, Nick ^b   Petroff, Pierre ^b   Vučković, Jelena ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM DOT;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRODYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIGHT SCATTERING; PROBE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; REFLECTIVITY;

ARTICLE; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SOLID STATE; SPECTRUM;

EID: 36849079836     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06234     Document Type: Article

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