Statistics of narrow-band single photons for quantum memories generated by ultrabright cavity-enhanced parametric down-conversion

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Scholz, Matthias ^a   Koch, Lars ^a   Benson, Oliver ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC RESONANCES; EFFICIENT INTERACTIONS; HIGHER ORDERS; IDLER PHOTONS; NARROW BANDS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDES; PARAMETRIC DOWN CONVERSIONS; PHOTON NUMBERS; POISSONIAN; QUANTUM MEMORIES; SINGLE PHOTONS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 61349122094     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.063603     Document Type: Article

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