Broadband waveguide quantum memory for entangled photons

Nature

Volumn 469, Issue 7331, 2011, Pages 512-515

  Saglamyurek, Erhan ^a   Sinclair, Neil ^a   Jin, Jeongwan ^a   Slater, Joshua A ^a   Oblak, Daniel ^a   Bussìres, Félix ^a,c   George, Mathew ^b   Ricken, Raimund ^b   Sohler, Wolfgang ^b   Tittel, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM; THULIUM;

ERROR ANALYSIS; LITHIUM; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ATOM; EXCITATION; INFORMATION; MEMORY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEMICONDUCTOR; STORAGE;

EID: 79251580873     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09719     Document Type: Article

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