Broadband frequency conversion and shaping of single photons emitted from a nonlinear cavity

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 22689-22703

  McCutcheon, Murray W ^a   Chang, Darrick E ^b   Zhang, Yinan ^a   Lukin, Mikhail D ^c   Lončar, Marko ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; QUANTUM OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EMISSION WAVELENGTH; NITROGEN-VACANCY CENTER; NONLINEAR OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL MICROCAVITIES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL CAVITIES; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS; TRANSITION WAVELENGTHS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; LIGHTING; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 72049095371     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.022689     Document Type: Article

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