Cascaded single-photon emission from the Mollow triplet sidebands of a quantum dot

Nature Photonics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 238-242

  Ulhaq, A ^a   Weiler, S ^a   Ulrich, S M ^a   Rossbach R ^a   Jetter, M ^a   Michler, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

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EID: 84859424884     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2012.23     Document Type: Article

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