Femtosecond few-fermion dynamics and deterministic single-photon gain in a quantum dot

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 352-356

  Sotier, Florian ^a   Thomay, Tim ^a   Hanke, Tobias ^a   Korger, Jan ^a   Mahapatra, Suddhasatta ^b   Frey, Alexander ^b   Brunner, Karl ^b   Bratschitsch, Rudolf ^a   Leitenstorfer, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; NANOCRYSTALS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

CORRELATION ENERGY; EXCITON ABSORPTIONS; FEMTOSECOND LIGHT PULSE; FEMTOSECOND TIME SCALE; INTRABAND RELAXATION; NON-LINEAR REGIMES; PUMP PROBE MEASUREMENT; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 67649203302     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1229     Document Type: Article

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