Interference of dissimilar photon sources

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 715-717

  Bennett, A J ^a   Patel, R B ^a,b   Nicoll, C A ^b   Ritchie, D A ^b   Shields, A J ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHOTON SOURCES; PHOTON STATISTICS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; POISSONIAN STATISTICS; SEMI-TRANSPARENT; TIMING RESOLUTIONS; TWO-PHOTON INTERFERENCE;

PHOTONS;

EID: 70350127776     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1373     Document Type: Article

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