Bright solid-state sources of indistinguishable single photons

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Gazzano, O ^a   Michaelis De Vasconcellos, S ^a   Arnold, C ^a   Nowak, A ^a   Galopin, E ^a   Sagnes, I ^a   Lanco, L ^a,b   Lemaitre A ^a   Senellart, P ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM DOT;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; LASER; LIFESPAN; PHOTON; SEMICONDUCTOR; SOLID STATE;

EID: 84874584196     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2434     Document Type: Article

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