Single-photon spectroscopy of a single molecule

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Rezus, Y L A ^a,b   Walt, S G ^a   Lettow, R ^a,c   Renn, A ^a   Zumofen, G ^a   Gotzinger S ^a,d   Sandoghdar, V ^a,d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^c Industry Division Leica Microsystems AG   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENT INTERACTION; EMERGING APPLICATIONS; GENERAL APPROACH; NONLINEAR COUPLING; OPTICAL EMITTER; ORGANIC MOLECULES; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES; QUANTUM ENGINEERING; SINGLE EMITTER; SINGLE MOLECULE; SINGLE PHOTONS; SINGLE-PHOTON SPECTROSCOPY; WEAK INTERACTIONS;

COLOR CENTERS; PHOTONS;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

EID: 84857602608     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.093601     Document Type: Article

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