Phase-locked indistinguishable photons with synthesized waveforms from a solid-state source

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Matthiesen, Clemens ^a   Geller, Martin ^a,b   Schulte, Carsten H H ^a   Le Gall, Claire ^a   Hansom, Jack ^a   Li, Zhengyong ^c   Hugues, Maxime ^d   Clarke, Edmund ^d   Atatüre, Mete ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM DOT;

FLUORESCENCE; FOURIER TRANSFORM; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RESONANCE; TIMESCALE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; EXCITATION; LASER; PHOTON; SOLID STATE; WAVEFORM;

EID: 84875911625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2601     Document Type: Article

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