Resonantly driven coherent oscillations in a solid-state quantum emitter

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 203-207

  Flagg, E B ^a   Muller, A ^b   Robertson, J W ^a   Founta, S ^a   Deppe, D G ^c   Xiao, M ^c   Ma, W ^d   Salamo, G J ^d   Shih, C K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SCATTERING; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; EXCITED STATES; NANOCRYSTALS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

COHERENT OSCILLATIONS; CROSS-POLARIZED DETECTION; DETECTION WAVELENGTHS; ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS; SECOND-ORDER CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION; SINGLE QUANTUM EMITTER; SOLID STATE EMITTERS;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 61849175997     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1184     Document Type: Article

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