Visible-to-telecom quantum frequency conversion of light from a single quantum emitter

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 14, 2012, Pages

  Zaske, Sebastian ^a   Lenhard, Andreas ^a   Keßler, Christian A ^b   Kettler, Jan ^b   Hepp, Christian ^a   Arend, Carsten ^a   Albrecht, Roland ^a   Schulz, Wolfgang Michael ^b   Jetter, Michael ^b   Michler, Peter ^b   Becher, Christoph ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENCE TIME; FREQUENCY TRANSLATION; NEW APPLICATIONS; PHOTON ANTIBUNCHING; QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES; SECOND ORDER COHERENCE; SINGLE PHOTONS; SINGLE QUANTUM EMITTER; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; PHYSICS;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 84867049480     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.147404     Document Type: Article

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