Two-photon interference of the emission from electrically tunable remote quantum dots

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 632-635

  Patel, Raj B ^a,b   Bennett, Anthony J ^a   Farrer, Ian ^b   Nicoll, Christine A ^b   Ritchie, David A ^b   Shields, Andrew J ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED CHARGING; DISCRETE ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRICALLY INJECTED; ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE; QUANTUM INFORMATION; SELF ASSEMBLED QUANTUM DOTS; SOLID-STATE SOURCES; TWO-PHOTON INTERFERENCE;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 77956280554     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.161     Document Type: Article

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