Invited Review Article: Single-photon sources and detectors

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Eisaman, M D ^a,b,c   Fan, J ^a,b   Migdall, A ^a,b   Polyakov, S V ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AT-WAVELENGTH; CURRENT STATUS; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE;

DETECTORS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; PARTICLE BEAMS; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION;

PHOTONS;

EID: 79961144446     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3610677     Document Type: Review

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