Frequency-stabilized source of single photons from a solid-state qubit

Physical Review X

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Prechtel, Jonathan H ^a   Kuhlmann, Andreas V ^a   Houel, Julien ^a,b   Greuter, Lukas ^a   Ludwig, Arne ^c   Reuter, Dirk ^c,d   Wieck, Andreas D ^c   Warburton, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC FEEDBACK; EMISSION FREQUENCY; ENHANCED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; OPTICAL LINEWIDTH; RESONANCE FLUORESCENCES; SINGLE PHOTONS; SINGLE QUANTUM DOT; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE;

FLUORESCENCE; PARTICLE BEAMS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84893679003     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.3.04106     Document Type: Article

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