High-performance diamond-based single-photon sources for quantum communication

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Su, Chun Hsu ^a   Greentree, Andrew D ^a   Hollenberg, Lloyd C L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLINKING EFFECT; COHERENT SOURCES; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DECOY STATE; IN-FIBER; META-STABLE STATE; MODE VOLUME; ON-DEMAND; OPTICAL EXCITATIONS; PICOSECONDS; QUALITY FACTOR Q; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; SINGLE PHOTON GENERATION; SINGLE-PHOTON PULSE; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; STRINGENT REQUIREMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY; ZERO-PHONON LINE;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOEXCITATION; PHOTONIC BAND GAP; PHOTONS; POINT DEFECTS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; VACANCIES;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 70450277276     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.052308     Document Type: Article

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