Atomic-Vapor-Based High Efficiency Optical Detectors with Photon Number Resolution

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 18, 2002, Pages

  James, Daniel F V ^a   Kwiat, Paul G ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; GROUND STATE; INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTONS; RAMAN SCATTERING;

ATOMIC DENSITY; ATOMIC TRANSITION; HIGH EFFICIENCY OPTICAL DETECTOR; LASER RADIATION; PHOTON NUMBER RESOLUTION; TWO-PHOTON RAMAN EXCITATION;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 4344662101     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.183601     Document Type: Article

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