Ultrabright source of entangled photon pairs

Nature

Volumn 466, Issue 7303, 2010, Pages 217-220

  Dousse, Adrien ^a   Suffczyński, Jan ^a,b   Beveratos, Alexios ^a   Krebs, Olivier ^a   Lemaître, Aristide ^a   Sagnes, Isabelle ^a   Bloch, Jacqueline ^a   Voisin, Paul ^a   Senellart, Pascale ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM DOT;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL METHOD; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; DEVICE; ENERGY; MOLECULE; OPTICS; PHOTON; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SOLID STATE;

EID: 77954531959     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09148     Document Type: Article

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