Coherent optical pulse sequencer for quantum applications

Nature

Volumn 461, Issue 7261, 2009, Pages 241-245

  Hosseini, Mahdi ^a   Sparkes, Ben M ^a   Hétet, Gabriel ^a   Longdell, Jevon J ^a,b   Lam, Ping Koy ^a   Buchler, Ben C ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION NETWORK; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT; OPTICAL METHOD; OPTICAL THEORY; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LIGHT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHOTON ECHO SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 70249092110     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08325     Document Type: Article

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