Spectral compression of single photons

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 363-366

  Lavoie, J ^a   Donohue, J M ^a   Wright, L G ^a   Fedrizzi, A ^b   Resch, K J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY WAVEFORM GENERATION; CHIRPED LASER PULSE; COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; INFORMATION CARRIERS; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES; SPECTRAL COMPRESSION; SUM-FREQUENCY GENERATION;

BANDWIDTH; BANDWIDTH COMPRESSION; HYBRID SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 84877585358     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.47     Document Type: Article

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