Coherent generation of non-classical light on a chip via photon-induced tunnelling and blockade

Nature Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 859-863

  Faraon, Andrei ^a   Fushman, Ilya ^a   Englund, Dirk ^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

ELECTRODYNAMICS; LIGHT; NANOCRYSTALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PROBABILITY; PROBES; QUANTUM OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CAVITY QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; ENERGY EIGENSTATES; NON-CLASSICAL LIGHTS; PHOTON ANTIBUNCHING; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; SINGLE-PHOTON LEVEL; STATES OF LIGHT; VACUUM RABI SPLITTING;

PHOTONS;

EID: 55549141139     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1078     Document Type: Article

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