High-fidelity local addressing of trapped ions and atoms by composite sequences of laser pulses

Optics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1275-1277

  Ivanov, Svetoslav S ^a,b   Vitanov, Nikolay V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDRESSING METHOD; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; HIGH FIDELITY; SINGLE QUBIT OPERATIONS; SPATIAL REGIONS; TRAPPED ION;

ATOMS; LASER PULSES; QUANTUM COMPUTERS;

IONS;

EID: 79956075582     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.001275     Document Type: Article

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