Towards a picosecond transform-limited nitrogen-vacancy based single photon source

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 6240-6250

  Su, Chun Hsu ^a   Greentree, Andrew D ^a   Hollenberg, Lloyd C L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PHOTOEXCITATION; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM THEORY;

CAVITY PURCELL ENHANCEMENT; CAVITY-CENTRE SYSTEMS; SINGLE PHOTON SOURCE; ZERO PHONON LINE;

VACANCIES;

NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHOTON; TIME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NITROGEN; PHOTONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 43149121320     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.006240     Document Type: Article

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