Measuring the dynamics of second-order photon correlation functions inside a pulse with picosecond time resolution

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 20229-20241

  Aßmann, Marc ^a   Veit, Franziska ^a   Tempel, Jean Sebastian ^a   Berstermann, Thorsten ^a   Stolz, Heinrich ^b   Van Der Poel, Mike ^c   Hvam, Jørn M ^c   Bayer, Manfred ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; LASER EXCITATION; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONS; PULSED LASERS;

CORRELATION FUNCTION; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; PHOTON CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; PICOSECOND TIME; PULSED LASER EXCITATION; PULSED LIGHT SOURCE; REPETITION RATE; SECOND ORDERS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURES; SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; SUBNANOSECOND TIME SCALE;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 77957003898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.020229     Document Type: Article

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