Towards counting microwave photons at room temperature

Laser Physics Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 129-134

  Strekalov, Dmitry V ^a   Savchenkov, A A ^a   Matsko, A B ^a   Yu, N ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical upconversion; Photon counting; THz detection; WGM resonator

Indexed keywords

EID: 66149171747     PISSN: 16122011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lapl.200810118     Document Type: Article

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