Controlled storage and transfer of photonic space-time quantum-coherence in active quantum dot nanomaterials

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 3744-3752

  Gehrig, E ^a   Hess, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PHOTONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ACTIVE QUANTUM DOTS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

NANOMATERIAL; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM DOTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEMICONDUCTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 41149123325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.003744     Document Type: Article

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