Cavity-based single-photon sources

Contemporary Physics

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 289-313

  Kuhn, Axel ^a   Ljunggren, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cavity QED; LOQC; Optical micro cavities; Quantum information; Single photon sources

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953556145     PISSN: 00107514     EISSN: 13665812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00107511003602990     Document Type: Article

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