Optical quantum memory

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 706-714

  Lvovsky, Alexander I ^a   Sanders, Barry C ^a   Tittel, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT PERFORMANCE; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; HERALDED PHOTONS; OPTICAL DELAY LINES; QUANTUM COMPUTING; QUANTUM MEMORY; QUANTUM REPEATERS; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING;

LOGIC GATES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 72449212274     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.231     Document Type: Review

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