Slot-waveguide cavities for optical quantum information applications

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 7295-7303

  Hiscocks, Mark P ^a   Su, Chun Hsu ^b   Gibson, Brant C ^b   Greentree, Andrew D ^b   Hollenberg, Lloyd C L ^b   Ladouceur, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR CENTERS; DIAMONDS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; WAVEGUIDES;

ATOM-PHOTON INTERACTION; OPTICAL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL EXPERIMENTS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHOTONIC APPLICATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL CAVITIES; QUANTUM INFORMATION APPLICATIONS; STRONG-COUPLING REGIME;

QUANTUM THEORY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 66649124686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.007295     Document Type: Article

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