Quantum transduction of telecommunications-band single photons from a quantum dot by frequency upconversion

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 786-791

  Rakher, Matthew T ^a   Ma, Lijun ^a   Slattery, Oliver ^a   Tang, Xiao ^a   Srinivasan, Kartik ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY UP-CONVERSION; INTENSITY CORRELATION; INTERNAL CONVERSIONS; LINEAR OPTICAL QUANTUM COMPUTATION; OF QUANTUM-INFORMATION; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; STATIONARY SYSTEMS; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS;

BACTERIOPHAGES; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

LIGHT;

EID: 78049480258     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.221     Document Type: Article

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