A versatile source of single photons for quantum information processing

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Förtsch, Michael ^a,b,c   Fürst, Josef U ^a,b   Wittmann, Christoffer ^a,b   Strekalov, Dmitry ^a   Aiello, Andrea ^a,b   Chekhova, Maria V ^a   Silberhorn, Christine ^d   Leuchs, Gerd ^a,b   Marquardt, Christoph ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM DERIVATIVE; LITHIUM NIOBATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; FIELD EMISSION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PARAMETRIC TEST; PHOTON; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUANTUM YIELD; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TUNING CURVE;

EID: 84878355279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2838     Document Type: Article

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