Single photon emission from diamond nanocrystals in an opal photonic crystal

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 18044-18053

  Stewart, L A ^a,b   Zhai, Y ^a,c   Dawes, J M ^a,b   Steel, M J ^a,b   Rabeau, J R ^a,c   Withford, M J ^a,b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CENTRE FOR ULTRAHIGH BANDWIDTH DEVICES FOR OPTICAL SYSTEMS CUDOS   (Australia)

^c Quantum Information Science and Security ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONS; POLYSTYRENES; SELF ASSEMBLY;

DIAMOND NANOCRYSTALS; OPAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; POLYSTYRENE MICRO-SPHERE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; TIME-RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE MEASUREMENTS;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

DIAMOND; NANOPARTICLE; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIAMOND; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTONS; POLYSTYRENES; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 70349687568     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.018044     Document Type: Article

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